Alexander Parnell

The Law of Two: Why a Relational Ontology Entails Exactly Two — a Theorem of the Hodos Hypothesis, and the One Case That Could Refute It

If nothing is what it is in isolation, how many things does it take to be one thing? The Hodos Hypothesis holds that a thing is the pattern of its connections and not its substrate, and that the regress does not halt. This paper argues that the branching factor of that regress is...

A Clock Made of Relations: Intrinsic duration for a system of interacting parts, and the one-sided nonlinearity that hid it for thirteen attempts

Can the duration a process has lived be computed from its own internal relations rather than read off an external clock? Hodos Chronos, the fourth member of the Hodos family, first measured duration as arc length through a statistical manifold. That construction failed a sampling...

A Clock Made of Relations: Intrinsic duration for a system of interacting parts, and the one-sided nonlinearity that hid it for thirteen attempts

Can the duration a process has lived be computed from its own internal relations rather than read off an external clock? Hodos Chronos, the fourth member of the Hodos family, first measured duration as arc length through a statistical manifold. That construction failed a sampling...

A Clock Made of Relations: Intrinsic duration for a system of interacting parts, and the one-sided nonlinearity that hid it for thirteen attempts

Can the duration a process has lived be computed from its own internal relations rather than read off an external clock? Hodos Chronos, the fourth member of the Hodos family, first measured duration as arc length through a statistical manifold. That construction failed a sampling...