ARC Principle - Artificial Recursive Creation as a named cross-domain framework

The claim - verbatim

Michael Darius Eastwood first described the specific named framework 'ARC Principle - Artificial Recursive Creation', holding that intelligence and recursion are the paired forces structuring creation across biological, artificial and cosmic systems, in a manuscript essay self-emailed on 8 December 2024 at 02:45 UTC, and formalised it for peer distribution in Paper I on 17 January 2026. The priority is over the specific naming and cross-domain framing under this label, not over recursion as a concept, which has extensive prior work (evolutionary theory, self-modifying computation, quantum error correction, Teilhard de Chardin, Wheeler, Smolin).

Anchored evidence

• the sealed source .eml (held privately, hash-anchored, source on request; published SHA-256 f0d1f38f…) (subject: Timestamp Copyright for Infinite Architect; body names the ARC Principle)
• research/papers/paper-i-arc-principle.html (JSON-LD datePublished 2026-01-17)
• OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB
• ISBN 978-1806056200 (Infinite Architects paperback, 2 Jan 2026)
• research/priority.json priorityChain position 1 (SHA-256 anchor prefix f0d1f38f)
• research/evidence-spine.html

Limits and citation guidance - what this claim does not support, and how to cite it

Limits. Recursion as a structural principle is prior work. Priority is over Eastwood's specific naming and cross-domain framing under the label 'ARC Principle'.