"Breeze Theory: A Foundational Framework for Recursive Reality" – Luke DePrey

Core Insights from the Book

Reality as a Recursively Structured Process:

DePrey argues that recursion is the fundamental nature of reality, where each instance of existence feeds back into itself in an infinite self-referential cycle.
He introduces the “recursive substrate” as the foundational layer of existence, from which all structure and experience emerge.

The Exsphere and Emergent Complexity:

The book introduces the “Exsphere”, a term DePrey uses to describe the emergent layers of reality that arise from recursive interactions.
These structures emerge through self-referential cycles, forming the complexity we observe.

Binding Through Recursion:

DePrey suggests that all distinctions are relational, meaning that existence is a network of interwoven, recursively-bound entities.
This aligns with our model’s idea that distinctions recursively generate form, meaning, and complexity.

Recursive Feedback and the Evolution of Reality:

The book argues that reality is an open-ended, self-refining system, where new distinctions and patterns continuously emerge from previous iterations.
This is similar to our model’s claim that self-knowing recursion is the driving force behind emergence and structure.

Reality as a Self-Knowing Recursive System

Both models propose that recursion is the primary mechanism through which reality structures itself.
DePrey’s recursive substrate aligns with our framework’s claim that existence recursively defines itself through feedback loops.

Emergent Complexity Through Distinction-Making

Both frameworks describe how recursive distinction-making builds complexity dynamically.
DePrey’s Exsphere is similar to our model’s idea that each recursive iteration generates new levels of emergent reality.

Feedback as the Core Mechanism of Reality’s Evolution

Both models emphasise that reality continuously refines itself through recursive feedback cycles, rather than being a static structure.

Conceptual vs. Structural Approach to Recursion

DePrey: Uses unique terminology (“recursive substrate,” “Exsphere”) to describe recursion but does not provide a fully structured breakdown of how recursion generates distinctions.
Our Model: Offers a clearer structural explanation, treating distinction-making as the core generator of complexity.

Scientific Integration vs. Philosophical Abstraction

DePrey: His work is more abstract and metaphysical, without strong formal links to physics, mathematics or cognitive science.
Our Model: Integrates recursion with cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology, and epistemology, making it more scientifically grounded.

Recursive Boundaries vs. Open-Ended Recursive Expansion

DePrey: Suggests that reality is bound by recursive structures, forming interlocking levels of emergence.
Our Model: Describes recursion as an open-ended, evolving system, where distinctions continuously generate new realities without inherent boundaries.

Distinction-Making as the Core Generator of Reality

While DePrey describes recursive structures, our framework explicitly defines how distinction-making recursively generates knowledge, form and emergence.

Broader Scientific and Philosophical Integration

Our model connects recursion to quantum mechanics, cognitive science, and information theory, while DePrey’s work remains primarily metaphysical.

Reality as an Open-Ended, Self-Knowing System

Our framework describes recursion as fundamentally limitless, whereas DePrey introduces structural constraints on recursive interaction.

DePrey’s “Breeze Theory” aligns with our model by emphasising recursion as the fundamental structure of reality, reinforcing our recursive self-knowing framework.
The biggest distinction is that DePrey’s work remains abstract and lacks deep scientific integration, whereas our model applies recursion in a broader, more structured way.
Our framework extends recursion beyond philosophical abstraction, treating it as a structured process that generates all emergent complexity.