Telic recursion

Telic recursion is metacausation. It's the process by which universal free will is exercised. Before the universe determines its next state, it takes all of reality and every past and future contingency into account and then chooses a particular state on the basis of its own values (the exercising of a generalized utility function); this is known as telic recursion.

At a more technical level, telic recursion can also be described as the adaptive exploratory feedback between L_s and L_o which generates the terminal expressions of M. The intelligence of a telon is telic recursion.

The above diagram illustrates the relationship of primary and secondary telic recursion, with the latter “embedded in” or expressed in terms of the former. The large circles and arrows represent universal laws (distributed syntax) engaged in telic feedback with the initial state of spacetime (initial mass-energy distribution), while the small circles and arrows represent telic feedback between localized contingent aspects of syntax and state via conspansion. The primary stage maximizes global generalized utility on an ad hoc basis as local telors freely and independently maximize their local utility functions. The primary-stage counterparts of inner expansion and requantization are called coinversion and incoversion. It is by virtue of telic recursion that the SCSPL universe can be described as its own self-simulative, self-actualizative “quantum protocomputer”.

Definition

A fundamental process that tends to maximize a cosmic self-selection parameter, generalized utility, over a set of possible syntax-state relationships in light of the self-configurative freedom of the universe. An inherently "quantum" process that reflects the place of quantum theory in SCSPL, telic recursion is a "pre-informational" form of recursion involving a combination of hology, telic feedback and recursive selection acting on the informational potential of MU, a primal syndiffeonic form that is symmetric with respect to containment.

Primary Stage

The primary stage of telic recursion has global influence and deals with universal law engaged with the initial state of spacetime. It is associated with the protocomputational level of processing of reality and is associated with the potentiative stage of causation.

From "Introduction to the CTMU":

Incoversion carries global structure inward as state-transformation syntax, while coinversion projects syntactic structure outward in such a way as to determine future states in conformance to it. Incoversion is associated with an operation called requantization, while coinversion is associated with a complementary operation called inner expansion. The alternation of these operations, often referred to as wave-particle duality, comprises the process known as conspansion.

This stage of telic recursion determines the elements of N, distributed descriptors of π_O, including the spatiotemporally-distributed Markovian and conservative descriptors called “laws of physics”.

Some Associations

Incoversion	Coinversion
Particle	Wave
Requantization	Inner expansion
Inward mapping	Outward mapping
Endomorphism	Ectomorphism
D mapping	D-1 mapping

Secondary Stage

The secondary stage of telic recursion has local influence. It's associated with the actualizative stage of causation. It consists of material and geometric state-transitions expressed in terms of the primary stage and is associated with secondary telors. Secondary telors can be said to constantly “create the universe” by channeling and actualizing generalized utility within it since there is a sense in which primary and secondary telic recursion is simultaneous.

Notes

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