Ontology
Constraint Ordering and Direction ā A Structural Account
In production (complete)An account of ordering and directional continuation that does not treat time, entropy, or teleology as primitive.
Function in corpus
Backbone for the corpus's treatment of history, asymmetry, and path dependence. Especially important for lineage, irreversibility, and long-horizon dynamic papers.
Details
The paper argues that directional asymmetry arises from the way constraints order transformations, not from an imported arrow of time. It distinguishes structural ordering from temporal metaphor and shows how continuation acquires direction once certain transformations become non-equivalent under persistence conditions. ā¢ Connected papers: Informational Ontology; Accumulation Without Teleology; Constraint Dissolution; Irreversibility Thresholds in Replicating Systems