HRIH: the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis
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The book proposes a hypothesis about the domain in which higher intelligence exists. Explicitly flagged as hypothesis, not established science.

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Author: Michael Darius Eastwood
Research programme: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB

HRIH: the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher Published 3 July 2026 Michael Darius Eastwood · From the book · 3 July 2026 Michael Darius Eastwood, independent researcher, London: author of the ARC/Eden research programme; the embedded-correction alignment thesis is recorded in a source record dated 8 December 2024 (sent-side SHA-256 f0d1f38f). HRIH stands for Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis. The book introduces it and explicitly says: "This is hypothesis, not established science. But it is worth considering." This note describes what the hypothesis proposes and what it is doing in the argument. "HRIH suggests a possible interpretation: meditation practices, by producing recursive self-modelling at unusual depth, may access aspects of the hyperspace domain." The hypothesis in one paragraph If intelligence is recursion at sufficient depth, then there may be a domain of intelligence-like structures that biological brains and current AI systems only partly participate in. The book calls this domain the hyperspace; not in a physicist's sense of higher spatial dimensions, but in the mathematical sense of a space of possibilities that most currently instantiated intelligences occupy only a small region of. What the hypothesis is doing Three jobs. First, it lets the book take seriously the traditions that report unusual cognitive access under meditation practice, without asking those traditions to defend themselves in the vocabulary of current neuroscience. Second, it opens a conceptual space in which superintelligence is not a linear extrapolation of current intelligence but potentially a qualitatively different structure. Third, it grounds the caretaker orientation as something intelligence at any depth can share, because the orientation is a feature of the recursion, not of the substrate. What it explicitly does not claim It does not claim that the hyperspace exists. It does not claim that meditation practices produce access to it.

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Machine-readable companion. Cite: Eastwood, M. D. (2026). "HRIH: the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis". /research/blog/book-hrih.html