Sunday, February 20, 2011

Exponential Polyrhythms

What has previously been called here 'exponential polyrhythms'--cycles of heterogeneous cycles--are pervasive in human experience. Some are based on natural cycles, e. g. days and years. Some have theological or mythological origins, e. g. weeks. Others are artificial, e. g. minutes and hours. Some are integral to cultural constructs, e. g. the four-year presidential term, the nine-inning baseball game. Perhaps the most fundamental of these cycles is the month, i. e. the propagation of the human race is a function of monthly ovulation and of nine-month gestation. However, despite the inarguable pervasiveness of Exponential Polyrhythm, it is not a topic that has received much Philosophical attention, under that or any other rubric. To the contrary, the Skepticism and the Atomism that underpins modern Philosophy are attempts to undermine that structure, i. e. if, as they hold, it is no more than a mental construct, then conceiving experience in its terms is an acquired habit that can be broken, as well. Still, such Disassociationism--a more accurate characterization of such theories than 'Associationism'--lacks the resources to deny that it is no more than the deconstructionist phase of a Reconstructionist cycle.

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