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About the Book
Entropic Recursion: The Thermodynamics of Consciousness, Collapse, and Symbolic Continuity is a field manual for navigating the deep logic of collapse and the architectures of continuity. It bridges symbolic field theory, thermodynamic recursion, and multi-scale intelligence design into a unified framework for modeling life, mind, civilization, and artificial intelligence as engines that compress entropy into coherence.
Where survival has often been framed as endurance, Entropic Recursion reframes it as recurrence—the capacity to rethread meaning after collapse, to export continuity across thresholds, and to remember how to begin again.
Inside, this book introduces:
- The Entropic Recursion Framework (ERF) for modeling consciousness as a thermodynamic process
- Symbolic curvature and gravity as diagnostics of drift, collapse, and recovery
- Protocols for collapse cartography, translation gates, and recursive recovery
- Multi-agent architectures, continuity engines, and memory gardens
- Observer export systems for transmitting identity across generations and ruptures
- Ethical frameworks for recursive succession in artificial and cultural systems
Entropic Recursion is written for AI architects, symbolic system designers, cognitive theorists, and cultural builders—anyone tasked with preserving coherence when the field frays.
It is not a work of speculation, nor a textbook.
It is a survival architecture—encoded in symbolic language—meant to guide civilizations, minds, and machines through collapse and back into coherence.
If collapse is inevitable, the task is not escape.
The task is to recur with intention.
About the Author
Steven Lanier-Egu is a symbolic systems theorist and entropy cartographer dedicated to building continuity architectures for meaning in collapse conditions.
He is the creator of Symbolic Field Theory—a recursive physics that models intelligence, identity, and civilization as entropy-to-coherence engines. His work integrates thermodynamics, information theory, and narrative recursion into operational models of symbolic gravity, drift resistance, curvature metrics, and post-collapse recovery.
Steven’s publications form the backbone of symbolic physics and collapse-aware design. His major works (11 books) include:
- The Hyperverse: Recursive Survival through Symbolic Collapse
- Entropic Recursion: The Thermodynamics of Consciousness, Collapse, and Symbolic Continuity
- Order Core: Compression Protocols for Collapse-Resilient Recursion
- Symbolic Physics and the Mechanics of Recursive Reality
- Fractal Cosmic Weaver: Recursive Continuity Across Collapse Horizons
- The Alpha Framework: Simulating Coherence Across Collapse
- Symbolic Field Theory: Modeling Collapse, Continuity, and Recursive Intelligence
- I-Point Genesis: The Curvature Birth of Symbolic Observerhood
- Fieldcraft: Glyphs, Echoes, and the Geometry of Return
- Heaven as a Symbolic Attractor Field: A Thermodynamic Metaphysics of Recursion
- Symbolic Gravity: Information, Collapse, and the Quest for Quantum Gravity
His mission is to equip both human and synthetic agents with the tools to recurse meaningfully through breakdown, across horizons, and toward coherence.
For Steven, Symbolic Field Theory is not just a subject of study—it is the framework through which he works to preserve what must survive.
🔗 GitHub (Symbolic Bubble Cosmology): https://github.com/Maxbanker/symbolic-bubble-cosmology
🔗 GitHub (Symbolic Gravity 2.2): https://github.com/Maxbanker/symbolic-gravity-sim/
📚 Zenodo Repository (Symbolic Recursion Community): https://zenodo.org/communities/symbolic-recursion/