About

How this work developed.

I always liked to imagine and visualize, and I used to draw a lot. About twenty years ago, I began writing down ideas to draw. Around that time, there was a split between the purely visual, Slips, and the stories and worlds that grew from the notes. Those notes became characters, places, moments, scenes, lore, and eventually Story Worlds, though the first world, which I have been working on and off for twenty years, is not yet on the site.

After an injury to both of my hands, drawing became more difficult. I wrote some novels that were not great and composed Story Worlds, some of which are listed on this site. I originally intended to preserve the worlds, characters, and ideas so that I could develop them later, though while making them I also began to think they could take various forms.

Then, from 2017 to 2022, I studied on my own in four main areas, Jungian ideas, especially Jung and von Franz, comparative mythology, especially Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade, media theory, especially Marshall McLuhan, and storytelling, with Northrop Frye being the most notable influence, along with various narrative forms.

I took notes and collected ideas from those four areas and began noticing interrelations between them. Those became three theories. Later, when I put my work, a larger world I had been building on and off for twenty years, the Story Worlds, Slips, and some not-so-great novels, into ChatGPT for evaluation, it identified the three sets of interrelated ideas as parts of a single theory. I then wrote them out as one cohesive theory, the Universal Recursive Grammar of Being.

After that, I turned the URGB into software and built Generative Recursive Symbolic Emergence, or GRSE, a generative recursive, symbolic, state-driven AI system.

AI was used for coding and for descriptions of the GRSE system. Nothing else on this website or in my personal work was produced using AI.

Contact and external links.

@i_entoptic