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If you searched this question, every result on the page told you the same thing: recursion is a programming technique where a function calls itself. Base case, state change, self-call. Factorials. Fibonacci. Python tutorials. That definition is correct — for computer science. But it describes one narrow instance of something far more fundamental.

If you searched "law of recursion," you probably found computer science pages about the "three laws of recursion" — base case, state change, self-call. Those are rules for writing recursive algorithms in software. They describe how to program a function that calls itself. The Law of Recursion is something different entirely. It is a first principle of physics, biology, and all active systems. The Law The Law of Recursion was proposed by Don L. Gaconnet in 2026 through the Lif

Founder and Sole Authority: Don L. Gaconnet Institutional Home: LifePillar Institute for Recursive Sciences ORCID: 0009-0001-6174-8384 Founding Date: June 27, 2025 Primary Archive: OSF Project DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/MVYZT Document Date: March 2026 1. Definition Recursive Sciences is the scientific field that studies mandatory recursive exchange as the structural condition governing all active systems. The field is grounded in the Law of Recursion —a first principle stating that

Don L. Gaconnet Founder, Recursive Sciences LifePillar Institute for Recursive Sciences ORCID: 0009-0001-6174-8384 March 2026 Abstract This paper provides the formal definition of Recursive Sciences as a scientific field. Recursive Sciences is the study of mandatory recursive exchange in all active systems, grounded in the Law of Recursion—a first principle stating that any process of transmission, transformation, or generation requires a traversal across a seven-node topolog