Shared Recursive Continuity Dynamics: Momentum, Compression, and Admissibility Across Interacting Cognitive Systems
Type: book
Abstract: This paper develops Shared Recursive Continuity Dynamics as a structural framework for interpreting communication, dialogue, and collaborative cognition within the Cognitive Branch of the PATON System. The framework proposes that understanding cannot always be reduced to accurate symbolic transmission between a sender and receiver. During sustained interaction, two cognitive systems may become temporarily organised around a shared recursive continuity corridor containing: • a common reference; • directional expectation; • relational weighting; • active context; • unfinished implications; • and a developing convergence region. Each participant may contribute to maintaining this corridor. The paper defines this process as Continuity Co-Holding. Once established, a shared continuity corridor may acquire momentum-like behaviour. Further continuation becomes easier because earlier context, weighting, and direction remain active. At the same time, interruption or directional deviation may become more disruptive because the interaction now depends upon accumulated shared structure. The paper distinguishes: • symbolic comprehension; • continuity comprehension; • individual coherence; • shared coherence; • continuity momentum; • recursive synchronisation; • compression pressure; • relational admissibility; • interruption deformation; • continuity rupture; • repair; • and shared re-entry. The framework argues that a statement such as “Did you get what I meant?” may function not merely as a request for factual confirmation but as a continuity synchronisation operator. Such a question tests whether both systems still occupy the same active corridor. The paper further distinguishes fluent and destabilised traversal modes. Fluent shared traversal allows: • abstraction; • humour; • side branches; • compressed language; • and rapid continuation because the corridor remains jointly held. Destabilised traversal may produce: • repetition; • narrowing; • urgency; • frustration; • clarification demand; • uncertainty amplification; • and anticipated continuity collapse. Relational admissibility is treated as a property of interaction rather than one individual alone. A pathway may remain coherent for one system while becoming inaccessible, overloaded, threatening, or structurally inadmissible for the other. Language is therefore examined as a continuity-shaping geometry in which order, timing, phrasing, omission, emphasis, and repair influence whether the shared traversal remains coherent. Continuity Empathy provides the method for reconstructing the interaction: Listen → Reconstruct → Extract → Continue The framework remains observational, non-clinical, non-diagnostic, non-mystical, and structurally restrained. SCTA is included only as a later application location for selected dimensions involving relational load, continuity separation, interruption tolerance, re-entry, adaptability, and transmission tendency.
Author: Paton, Andrew John
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7222910326