Dustin Ogle

The Double-Slit Experiment, Without the Magic

A plain-language companion to Relation Before Relata. The double-slit experiment is usually presented as proof that conscious observation collapses reality. This essay gives a plainer — and, in the end, stranger — reading: what destroys the interference pattern is neither a mind...

The Double-Slit Experiment, Without the Magic

A plain-language companion to Relation Before Relata. The double-slit experiment is usually presented as proof that conscious observation collapses reality. This essay gives a plainer — and, in the end, stranger — reading: what destroys the interference pattern is neither a mind...

The Ellipse Mind Model: A Cyclical Architecture of Self-Relation, from Human Observation to a Running Agent

In a mind, novel content does not arrive only through the senses; much of it arises from within. This paper takes that fact as a design principle and builds a model around it, on a foundation of relational primitivism — the view that relational organization is prior to the things...

A Covariant, Completely Positive Channel from an Exact Sp(3) Relational Construction, Trace-Preserving and Action-Determined Under an Explicit Convention Premise

We ask whether a construction’s invariances can be derived from the defined structure of a relational object rather than imposed on it, and whether the physical action such an object induces is determined within the stated convention rather than chosen among admissible placements...

Relation Before Relata: A Relational-Primitivist Ontology of Individuation, Perspective, and Presence

A persistent assumption holds that things exist first and relations obtain between them. This paper develops the alternative — relational primitivism — on which relational organization is prior to the entities within it, and a thing is a pattern in a relational structure stable e...

Relation Before Relata: A Relational-Primitivist Ontology of Individuation, Perspective, and Presence

A persistent assumption holds that things exist first and relations obtain between them. This paper develops the alternative — relational primitivism — on which relational organization is prior to the entities within it, and a thing is a pattern in a relational structure stable e...

A Covariant, Completely Positive Channel from an Exact Sp(3) Relational Construction, Trace-Preserving and Action-Determined Under an Explicit Convention Premise

We ask whether a construction’s invariances can be derived from the defined structure of a relational object rather than imposed on it, and whether the physical action such an object induces is determined within the stated convention rather than chosen among admissible placements...