Show HN: To understand recursion, you must understand recursion

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« To understand recursion, you must understand recursion. »

In other words "go your way" you will not understand anything about recursion if you are not among the lucky ones. In this paper, taking forgotten byways, I propose to demonstrate the opposite, to show why recursion is consubstantial to us and why it concerns us all as humans.