Recursion: From Academic Obscurity to Daily AI Vocabulary

How a technical term became essential for understanding consciousness, AI, and yourself

There's a word breaking out of academic towers and computer science labs, spilling into everyday conversations about AI, consciousness, and what it means to be human.

Recursion

You're hearing it whispered in discussions about technology. You're feeling it in the way your thoughts spiral back to examine themselves. You're sensing it in how AI systems creat…