Polyrhythm

Experience is not merely rhythmic, but polyrhythmic. The pervasiveness of polyrhythms can be gleaned from a simple example: hopping forward on one foot is constituted by a rhythm, which, when conjoined with the rhythmic movement of the other foot, produces walking. Likewise, all basic motility is polyrhythmic. Furthermore, a daily walk is polyrhythmic--e. g. a combination of Monday's walking rhythms with Tuesday's--which, therefore, demonstrates a poly-rhythm of polyrhythms. However, such an example exhibits a distinction of types of polyrhythm, which might be classified as 'arithmetic' and 'exponential'. In general. arithmetic polyrhythms are concurrent, while exponential ones entail some sequential juxtapositioning. The distinction presents a challenge to Associationism, which recognizes only arithmetic combinations. So, the example of polyrhythms exposes its inadequacy--while it explains the conjunction of two elements, it does not explain the closure of that conjunction, which any sequential conjunction would entail. Hence, the only way that it can conjoin Tuesday's steps with Monday's is as a continuation of the former. In other words, Associationism cannot fully explain Polyrhythm.