Distinctions and Recursion

Laws of Form talks about the notion of distinctions.

It seems to me it is an issue of recursion. Whatever distinction you make is an assumption about the context we are in. There is a tendency to start with too much beginning framework. We are already far removed from the "first" distinction. As carbon based life forms with  the evolutionary architecture we have, the universe has already made a number of distinctions for us that are often invisible to us. We perceive with senses that provide a particular kind of window into "reality". It is very difficult for us to see that window frame through which  we are looking. And even more, we don't perceive what is not perceptible  through that  window frame of ours.

So given that we are far removed from the first distinction, then we have a problem of recursion. How do we get to that first distinction? I am not sure we can get to that first distinction. It is more like an asymptotic approach. What ever distinctions ( assumptions ) we make, we can go meta to those distinctions and try to uncover what assumptions are built  into those distinctions. And then do that again and again. In some sense, is that not part of our evolutionary journey ? To keep realizing that  whatever distinctions we have made are not absolute and we keep discovering deeper (?) levels of distinctions.  I expect we'll have a great awakening to our own distinctions when we first come across an extra-terrestrial civilization.

Computer languages  like XML are very early attempts to start the recursive process by allowing meta data to guide the interpretation. And in addition to be able to change  the meta data to see the  same source from a different perspective. I expect that we'll make much better multilayered languages. There are general patterns that  XML provides, however the syntax seems to be rather cumbersome.  And part of that it seems to me derives from our limited capacity to handle complexity.