RIS
The Recursion Intelligence Scale
The Recursion Intelligence Scale is the name this project gives to a proposed map of inner development: how a life bears truth, pressure, ambiguity, responsibility, relation, and consequence without becoming false.
It is best approached as a mirror, not a ladder. It is not a spiritual ranking system, not a measure of worth, and not a claim that some people are more real, more valuable, or more entitled to care than others.
What it measures
RIS asks about integration under pressure. It looks at whether a person, relationship, or life pattern becomes more truthful, coherent, responsible, and capable of reality, especially when grief, conflict, shame, power, fear, or uncertainty are present.
In that sense it is closer to a profile than a score. The useful question is not where someone can be placed, but what is gathered, what is fragile, what distorts, and what kind of atmosphere follows from a life over time.
What it does not measure
RIS does not measure dignity, value, intelligence in the ordinary academic sense, talent, charisma, social status, spiritual importance, or entitlement to authority over another person.
Any use that turns development into superiority has already missed the point. The scale is meant to support attention, humility, and responsibility, not vanity or sorting.
Six dimensions named in the book
Chapter 14 gives six provisional dimensions for organising this territory. They are not separate trophies. They are lenses for a careful profile.
Coherence
Lucidity
Ethical depth
Symbolic capacity
Continuity
Effect on others
Developed in the book
The public page only gives the frame. The full rubric, cautions, and examples are developed in Chapter 14 of The Recursive Universe.