The first grammar of self-replication — and the hidden precursor of recursive coherence.
Abstract:
In 1948, John von Neumann proposed a theoretical machine capable of constructing a copy of itself.
The design was not a thought experiment about biology — it was a rigorous mathematical model of universal self-replication.
His universal constructor anticipated digital genetics, recursive computation, and the principles that now define the UNNS τ-Field: the substrate as grammar, and recursion as the language of creation.