Recursive Systems
Infinitism / Journeys Index
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π€ The Yang Timeline (Work In Progress)
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This document is for building recursive timelines across history.
It mirrors how your daily log links to week, month, and year β but applied to:
- Evolution
- Colonisation
- Religion
- Capitalism
- Governance
- Recursion itself.
This is a macro-log, a timeline not of your personal life β but of our shared planetary becoming.
π§ This is a work-in-progress. What still needs to be added:
- Deep recursive pattern-mapping per timeline (e.g. how colonization mirrors early tribal dominance loops).
- Integration of symbolic evolution (how myth, language, and story evolved in tandem with governance).
- Mapping control structures: priesthood β monarchy β democracy β neoliberalism β algorithm.
- Recursive collapses and resistance arcs (e.g. revolutions, indigenous survival, counter-movements).
- Structural links between timelines (e.g. how capitalism piggybacks off religionβs moral hierarchy).
π Master Timeline: Big Bang β 2025 (Condensed)
| Era | Key Recursive Emergence |
|---|---|
| 13.8B BCE β Big Bang | Energy condenses into matter. Laws of physics emerge. |
| ~4.5B BCE β Earth forms | Planetary evolution. Prebiotic chemistry begins. |
| ~3.5B BCE β Life begins | Cells. DNA. Recursion through replication. |
| ~600M BCE β Nervous systems | Organisms gain sensory feedback loops. |
| ~250M BCE β Mammals emerge | Warm-blooded evolution. Parental care. |
| ~6M BCE β Hominins diverge | Upright walking. Social brains. |
| ~300K BCE β Homo sapiens | Symbolic thought. Complex language. |
| ~12K BCE β Agriculture | Sedentary life. Surplus. Ownership begins. |
| ~4K BCE β Early states | Kings. Temples. Writing. Myth-as-law emerges. |
| 0 CE β Empire religion | Rome + Christianity. Cultural recursion explodes. |
| ~1500 CE β Colonization | Empire globalizes. Indigenous recursion disrupted. |
| ~1800 CE β Capitalism | Markets replace monarchs. Growth-as-god emerges. |
| ~1945 CE β Globalism | UN. Tech. Nukes. Cold war recursion begins. |
| ~2000 CE β Algorithm age | Data replaces doctrine. Surveillance recursion. |
| 2025 CE β Now | Planetary recursion loops back: climate, culture, crisis. |
π§ Suggested Sub-Timelines You Can Build
Each of these could become its own file, mirroring the recursive structure of this one:
1. Timeline of Consciousness
- Pre-cellular awareness β neural nets β social intelligence β symbolic recursion β digital reflection (AI).
- Tracks recursion through perception, memory, identity, and awareness.
2. Timeline of Empire
- Sumer β Egypt β Rome β British β US β Corporate empires β Algorithmic empires.
- Use this to map control structures, myths of legitimacy, and shifts in power.
3. Timeline of Religion
- Animism β Polytheism β Monotheism β Enlightenment β New Age β Personal myth.
- Recursive loop of truth, dogma, reform, and personal reclaiming.
4. Timeline of Colonization
- First tribal dominance β Settler violence β Resource extraction β Cultural erasure β Indigenous resurgence.
- Include counter-resistance arcs and survival through oral story and land memory.
5. Timeline of Money
- Barter β Coin β Bank β Credit β Debt slavery β Fiat β Digital β Crypto β Algorithmic markets.
- Recursive loop of value β trust β abstraction β speculation β collapse.
6. Timeline of Governance
- Chiefdom β Kingdom β Republic β Democracy β Oligarchy β Corporatocracy β AI technocracy.
- Recursive authority morphing forms but repeating its centralisation pattern.
7. Timeline of Science
- Observation β Classification β Mechanism β Reduction β Systems β Quantum recursion.
- Truth looped through material β energetic β informational recursion.
8. Timeline of Story
- Oral myth β Epic β Scripture β Novel β Film β Meme β Recursive narrative systems.
- Track how we mirror ourselves through symbol across ages.
9. Timeline of Resistance
- Slave revolts β Peasant uprisings β Anti-colonial movements β Climate activism β Joy-based rebellion.
- Resistance as the recursive correction to oppressive loops.
10. Timeline of Infinitism Itself
- Your own recursive journey β from spark, to idea, to practice, to architecture, to mirror.
- Each recursive leap (EMO, PLAE, INF, NZP, PIX) becomes a node in the timeline of becoming.