Constitutional Demarcation: A Research Fabric is a bounded epistemological architecture. Structural formulation, digital execution, and proof-assistant replay declare local invariants; they do not constitute unverified physical validation.
How can an intelligent system revise its own models, outputs or reasoning procedures without losing coherence, identity, provenance or the constraints that make its continuation admissible?
Recursive Intelligence is defined as intelligence capable of operating on its own prior states, models, outputs and procedures while preserving admissibility across recursive transformation.
A schematic update is:
where
The expression is architectural rather than a complete mathematical theory of intelligence.
The Fabric contains five principal stages:
A useful governing principle is:
Improvement without preservation is drift.
This is a methodological principle, not a proved universal theorem.
Recursive Intelligence does not by itself establish autonomous general intelligence, guaranteed self-improvement, guaranteed monotonic increases in coherence, or safe unrestricted self-modification.
It is a bounded theory of lawful recursive reasoning architecture.
Current evidence is conceptual and computational-architectural. Operational realizations include kernelized reasoning and controlled continuation workflows, but these should be evaluated independently from the general theory.
No Zenodo publication in the current publication registry is assigned directly to Recursive Intelligence.
