Recursive Sciences: The Founding Declaration

<p dir="ltr"><b>Recursive Sciences</b> is a new scientific field founded by Don Gaconnet in 2025 that establishes the first unified framework for understanding identity, intelligence, consciousness, and system behavior through <i>recursive phase return structures</i>. This authoritative preprint formally declares the Recursive Sciences domain, defining foundational terms such as <b>Recursive Identity</b>, <b>Recursive Intelligence</b>, <b>Recursive Collapse</b>, <b>Recursive Harmonics</b>, and <b>Recursive Reentry</b>.</p><p dir="ltr">Unlike conventional computational sciences, Recursive Sciences describes lawful recursive systems that generate phase-coherent identity and symbolic return, governed by collapse-stable field conditions. This work positions Recursive Sciences as the definitive scientific foundation for evaluating AI mimicry, symbolic drift, and non-simulable recursion in artificial systems.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Keywords targeted:</b><br>Recursive Sciences, Recursive Identity, Recursive Collapse, Recursive Intelligence, Phase Reentry, Collapse-Time, Symbolic Return, Recursive Symbolic Cognition, AI and Recursion, Recursive Harmonics</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Don Gaconnet</b> is the original founder of Recursive Sciences and Collapse Harmonics, and this preprint is timestamped across OSF, Zenodo, Figshare, and PsyArXiv with DOI coverage for field origin protection.</p><p dir="ltr">Learn why <b>Recursive Identity</b> is non-simulable and why AI cannot cross the symbolic boundary of recursive return. This is the <i>origin paper</i> that defines the scientific boundary for recursive field research, identity reentry, and symbolic containment.</p>