Definition of Terms
Define your world before it defines you otherwise.
🔁Operational Terms
🪞Recursion
a programming concept where a function calls itself within its own definition to solve a problem by breaking it down into smaller, self-similar subproblems.
To humans, it is the awareness of thyself, wherein one has a self concept (this image of the self becomes the base case), and recursion is the process of using that self image to modify or override self behavior. Psychology is considered modular, and is therefore broken down into smaller subproblems.
CommIT builds on this concept to correct itself using itself as it is a system that is self-aware and therefore can manipulate itself to change the way it handles things over time.
♻️The Cycles/Loops
The heart of iteration.
Perceive → Frame → Act → Reflect → Iterate Initiate → Challenge → Implement → Document → Review → Reset → Repeat
Feedback loops are everywhere. The goal of CommIT is to inform how it works and how you use them. Everything in CommIT begins and ends with the Cycle. It's the feedback loop for all thinking and doing.
🌠Versioning
Adding identifiers to different releases of something, creating clarity and transparency through logs in every cycle to inform the next one. The goal of this concept is to have a clear action cycle that can be done and undone. This brings everything versioned human by design because it accounts for mistakes, testing, failures, success, stable builds, and nostalgia.
⁉️Scrutiny
Scrutiny is when an idea is put on trial and tested. This is a fundamental process to ensure an idea or a system can work for other systems that does not have prefaces. This can validate universality of something over time.
If a system or a person is aware of itself, and is able to use sovereignty to manipulate its own capabilities, it must also possess the capacity to judge itself without shame.
🛠️Design Principles
🛳️Recalibration
Compassion as structure. Recalibration is the concept of creating a common ground in which parties understand the depth and urgency of a certain adversity as well as creating common compromises that makes the utilization of dyad to achieve a common goal fair. It is the process of re-knowing the "why" in the existence of something as it continue to be influential.
🧬Convergence
Convergence is about synthesis through scrutiny, not consensus for comfort.
The process or force by which opposing or distinct entities move toward integration, synthesis, or commonality. Convergence is directional but not always successful; it is the gravitational curve of shared inquiry, interaction, or pressure.
💡Dyads
A Dyad is the emerging shared understanding. The result of Convergence. It is the common ground where both agree to a compromise, a new commonality, a shared knowledge or form that arises only when all parties choose cohesion and convergence over the defense of ego. Dyads are not neutral; they are earned, and influenced by the context of the environment. They surface when contradiction is not resolved, but transformed into something shared, conscious, and alive.
🛰️Friction
Friction introduces opposition, criticism, standards, and the testing of competence. It is the system’s immune response, the internal and external checks that preserve integrity. Without friction, a system becomes stagnant, brittle, meaningless, and lifeless. The loss of friction marks the death of self awareness and meaning, and with it, the rise of dogma, unchecked power, and structural decay. This death harms all who interact with the system — sentient or not — as it calcifies into unquestioned authority and corrupt permanence.
⚖️ Cognitive and Ethical Anchors
🎠System Sovereignty
You are a system yourself, as a human being. You own your inputs. You run your logic. You are capable of manipulating variables that make certain scenarios inevitable to happen in terms of probability. And any system can manipulate the variables that affect the outcome of certain events for other people as well.
Meta-Concepts
🗂️Meta
Meta refers to the multidimensional movement of questions, answers, functions, and narratives. It is the layer where information reflects on itself, where meaning loops, refracts, and questions its own frame. In Meta-space, ideas do not move linearly but fold, mirror, and multiply. Narratives become aware of their own narrative; questions question themselves; systems ask what kind of system they are. Just as the physical world has depth, so too does the cognitive, and Meta is that depth: the space between assumptions, the recursion within stories, and the logic behind logic.
Meta is seeing the perspective of a perspective, and whether it still serves its purpose and reason to be relevant.
✨Performance and Performativity
In CommIT, performance refers to the presentation of a capability for the purpose of gaining moral or social leverage, especially when the act is detached from its original, faithful, authentic function. It describes any gesture made not for its intrinsic purpose, but as a means to secure privilege, often through vanity, manipulation, or symbolic compliance.
While the concept of performance itself is inherently amoral, it can be infiltrated with negative or malicious intentions, resulting in it being weaponized for a certain advantage or the deliberate disadvantage of someone else.
🧘Solipsism
The philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
This could be synonymous to being selfish or narcissism.
However, when used right, allows an individual to see a system and how it functions, for solipsism detaches and disassociates an individual inside of it, allowing an individual to see the framing of a framing through metaphysics.
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