Qualia and Recursion
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Qualia and Recursion
This molecule elaborates on the Recursion atom, focusing on the relationship between recursion and qualia in Recursive Distinction Dynamics.
Explores how recursion and qualia interact in RDD, and why that synthesis is necessary.
This note explains interactions and implications. It does not introduce new primitives.
Structural Introspection
Atoms Used (Declared Dependencies)
- Qualia and Recursion:
- Qualia
- What is Reality under RDD
This list represents explicit conceptual dependencies, not incidental mentions.
Atoms Referencing This Molecule (Backlinks)
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Atom Mentions Not Declared as Dependencies
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- Internal RDD synthesis: ☐
- External alignment (physics): ☐
- External alignment (philosophy): ☐
- External alignment (neuroscience): ☐
Confidence level
- ☐ Exploratory
- ☐ Provisional
- ☐ Stable
Molecule Content
References to “Qualia” and “What is Reality under RDD” from the original Recursion atom are discussed here, including their implications for subjective experience and recursive modeling.
[!warning]+ Source Needed
- For explicit connection between recursion and qualia, further philosophical and neuroscientific sources are required.
Sources
- Source: Wiener, N. (2000). Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine (2. ed., 10. print). MIT Press.
- Key: @wienerCyberneticsControlCommunication2000
- Use here: Feedback as physically implemented control and communication.
- Source: Maturana, H. R., Varela, F. J., Beer, S., & Maturana, H. R. (1980). Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living. D. Reidel Publishing Company.
- Key: @maturanaAutopoiesisCognitionRealization1980
- Use here: Self-maintaining systems via recursive organization.
- Source: Crutchfield, J. P. (1994). The calculi of emergence: Computation, dynamics and induction. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 75(1–3), 11–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(94)90273-9
- Key: @crutchfieldCalculiEmergenceComputation1994
- Use here: Recursion as state update constrained by stored structure.
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- Date: 2025-12-29
Change: Aligned molecule structure to template
Reason: Template standardization
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Sources touched: none
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