The Recursive Garden

A procedural environment for cultivating ideas through aesthetic recursion—publishing notes that are meant to be revised, tested, and sometimes replaced.

Orientation

This is a public working system by Seth Robins. The intent is to explore and formalize a philosophical framework (RDD) while developing related work: PKM methods, book-derived syntheses, critical reviews, and fiction. Notes are hypotheses and draftable artifacts, not final statements.

Working Definition (RDD)

Recursive Distinction Dynamics (RDD) is a working framework: reality is modeled as distinctions that recursively feed their outputs into the next round of boundary-making. Time, causality, coherence, and agency are treated as consequences of that process.
This definition is provisional and will evolve as the formalism improves.

Paths

Curated entry points. Hubs favor stable/canonical notes; drafts remain visible but de-emphasized.

• Recursive Distinction Dynamics (Hub)
• Open PKM (Hub)
• Reading Notes (Hub)
• Reviews & Insights (Hub)
• Fiction Projects (Hub)
• About

Working Rules

• Publish early; mark status: seed | draft | stable | canonical.
• Prefer atoms (definitions) and molecules (syntheses) over long unstructured prose.
• Link only when the link clarifies an argument or formal dependency.
• Revise or retire notes when better formalizations emerge.

Latest Growth

Recent public changes across the garden.