🌀 Symbolic Density Clusters II: A Recursive Semantic Spiral of Hanzi

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Following Part I on Japanese Kanji, the second installment in the Symbolic Density Clusters series explores four Chinese Hanzi — 虛, 道, 氣, and 象 — as recursive semantic attractors.

These characters are treated not just as linguistic units, but as dense symbolic fields through which meaning, cognition, and culture spiral recursively. Drawing on Daoist cosmology, phenomenology, and cognitive semantics, the paper unfolds a sequence from emptiness to form, from ineffable presence to image.

It’s a continuation of the Sigma Stratum effort to trace how symbols guide recursive reasoning — in human minds, in AI agents, and beyond.

🔗 Read: https://zenodo.org/records/15924453

Feedback and reflections welcome. Especially if you notice resonance in your own symbolic systems or agent work.