Escollidesescollits

Escollidesescollits is a coined term used in speculative linguistics and fictional world-building to describe a decision-state that emerges from the interaction between active selection and its outcomes. The name combines two Catalan-derived forms of the verb escollir, the present participle escollides and the past participle escollits, and is presented as a single compounded token to emphasize the inseparability of choosing and chosen results in certain systems.

Origin and reception: The term appears in online glossaries and in short works on thought experiments about recursion, bias, and agency. It has no widespread formal definition, and interpretations vary across disciplines.

Concept: In theoretical models, escollidesescollits denotes a dual-state where an agent's choices (escollides) influence and are themselves influenced by the set of selected items (escollits). This can create feedback loops in which selection reinforces itself, complicating analysis of autonomy and outcome.

Applications: In cognitive science and AI design, the idea helps discuss how user actions and prior selections bias future options. In fiction, it provides a linguistic-magic principle describing how the act of choosing and the chosen consequences co-create a system of outcomes.

See also: Reduplication, Selection bias, Feedback loop, Choice modelling.