The Principles of Process: A Recursive Model Across Scales

This essay proposes that process is grounded in four constitutive principles: Latent, Emergence, Recognition, and Change. They are not stages, subprocesses, or descriptive labels. They are positions in a causal sequence. Each primes the next. Every process occurs within an environment that constrains what the latent can trigger. The framework was stress-tested across physical, biological, cognitive, social, and technological domains—from the rock to the hydrogen atom, from the virus to the social movement. It is written in response to Kaisheng Li’s EQT framework. It does not claim to be a scientific theory. It claims to be a philosophical grammar of becoming, offered for testing, correction, and use. The framework was applied across geology, thermodynamics, nuclear physics, quantum chemistry, virology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, sociology, computer science, philosophy of science, religion, creativity studies, and physiology.