# eternity maybe stable inhabitation means both of\ (1) from that center being able to go inside deeper and deeper forever, and\ (2) from that center being able to look out further and further forever and *that's* just hanging out at a particular frame of recursion is recursive programming hard to learn because it involves casting self as cascade, maybe for your first time ever? am beginning to think that "eternal life" is more properly "stable inhabitation of recursion", and if that equivalence works, then we can talk about life with less risk of world-swallowing rounding errors makes me think that the mystics of previous eras were just using the language they had, and maybe if they had more computational theory available at the time our conversation *across* time would be different --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2025/08/08/eternity.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.