Mapping Recursion, A Redub (Document 6)
If I could map recursion again, I would take inspiration from a few pages of Douglas Hofstadter's, GEB. I reference 'Godel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid' a lot purely due to it's relevance towards recursion, infinity, paradoxes and the concept of self... But also because I highly suggest taking the challenge to read it. It's intellectually stimulating and really gets you thinking about amazing things worth knowing. Just saying... :D
These are images within Chapter V - Recursive Structures and Processes.
"The fact that INT consists of nothing but copies of itself might make you think it's too ephemeral to exist. Its definition sounds to circular. How does it ever get off the ground? That is a very interesting matter." (pg 138-139)
This graph is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and is worth really thinking about what it is implying. Visually we see the base level of abstraction. And you can see that the graph actually consists of warped and deformed copies of itself, rotated on different axis, which further consists of copies of themselves with infinite nesting. But it becomes circular, because from which abstraction does the 'first copy' originate?
