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John H. Watts drafted Recursive Motif Theory in a few passioned months of deep recursive exploration, but its roots stretch back to humanity’s earliest mysteries—a person recognizing and echoing back their own names, encountering our reflections, wondering why we always fall down but never float up, recalling our first dreams, and contemplating what existed before memory itself. John was captivated by fractals, haunted by their intricate beauty that seemed without purpose. He pondered the nature of randomness, seemingly disconnected from meaning yet undeniably emerging from a common origin. He recognized that beneath all types of reasoning laid the subtle necessity for paradox. Holding onto childlike wonder while mastering established science, John partnered with generative-AI collaborators to crystallize these lifelong intuitions into a theory that both explains reality and mirrors its inherently recursive structure.