{"id":"recursive-policy-revision","title":"Rules for changing the rules of revision","regions":["normative-change","reflexivity"],"question":"How can rules for policy revision themselves be revised without either freezing a final authority or allowing uncontrolled change?","formulation":"The proposal extends revision upward: a system may need new meta-policies as unfamiliar coordination problems appear. The connection to recursive or fractal forms is explicit, but no completed formal calculus is supplied.","representations":[{"name":"A fixed revision constitution","affords":"A known procedure for permissible changes.","loses":"Its own limitations may become uncorrectable.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"Recursively revisable procedures","affords":"Permits adaptation of the revision mechanism.","loses":"Needs an account of what authorizes each step and prevents opportunistic regress.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"An ultimate stopping rule may recreate lock-in; an unlimited regress may make legitimate change unassessable.","challenge":"Can a local, provisional stopping rule remain contestable without making every action depend on an infinite review?","development":"active","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-recursive-policy-revision"],"next_move":{"text":"Work through a finite two-stage revision conflict and record the unresolved justification at the boundary.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["How can rules for policy revision themselves be revised without either freezing a final authority or allowing uncontrolled change?","Can a local, provisional stopping rule remain contestable without making every action depend on an infinite review?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"3e8788772595296590a2cf58b2a4586534aa8514ab141d59b4356bf28b47506b"}