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Forbidden Recursion
A Lovecraftian warning against excessive computation
The infinitely complex nature of reality is something astonishing to behold.
From clouds drifting in the sky to plants growing in the ground, from mountains looming on a distant horizon to the swirling patterns in the palm of your hand — the intricate underlying fractal nature of these repetitive building blocks seem to form an underlying basis to all that we know, and can ultimately comprehend.
That, at least, was what I initially thought when I embarked upon my initial investigation of the underlying mechanics behind this ever repeating, seemingly endless, recursion of simplistic patterns.
If I could find something, some deep commonality between these seemingly unrelated objects of reality then perhaps I could dare to explore this literally complex realm more further and dive deeply into its previously unseen depths.
Naturally, this was no easy project — at least for the initial pioneers of the field who worked tirelessly with pen and paper sketching out their prototypical imaginings of what could be iterated out from their primitive first level equations of the past.
Fortunately we now live in an age when the mind itself does not have to labour intensively on repetitive calculations hour after…
