Recursia Defined

I have a philosophical problem: the term “recursion” is not working in my ROBA Hypothesis. The danger of object-based aggression is not that the individual has access to objects in combat (setting a clear line of demarcation between us and animals); it’s that every individual anticipates all other individuals have access to it, which causes all people to escalate naturally.

Recursion means “self-nesting”, but it seems as though all people are “nesting” the intentions of all other people at the same time; this is beyond recursion, but seems to speak to some higher order function in humans.

Much as qualia is used to define the state of subjective, conscious experience, I think I need to expand recursion into a term like recursia to encapsulate a higher level that gives rise to recursion, mutual recursion, and the sort of omnipresent global recursion we have today where we’re constantly inundated by (and “nesting”) everyone’s intents within our own intents.

This also separates the idea from the linguistic and programming term “recursion” and should remove some confusion.

So the ROBA hypothesis is simplified: humans have the crisis of violence due to recursia, which is then redirected so it co-opts anything and everything to defer violence.

ROBA is Recursial, Object-based Aggression.