Relation between becoming, duration and time.
1) Becoming is the continuous and irreversible occurrence of changes delimited by a beginning and an end. The becoming is perceptible. All phenomena and processes are part of becoming.
2) The magnitude of the becoming is the duration (intervals). The perception of duration is subjective and very inaccurate.
3) Time is the exact measure of duration. Over time we have a precise (mathematical) idea of the duration of things.
The becoming-duration duality is the structural basis of time. Although the becoming is perceptible, time is imperceptible and objective (magnitive). Without becoming there is no duration and without duration there is no time.
Humanity has gone through the three stages of this variable: Becoming represented by Heraclitus of Ephesus. Duration represented by Aristotle and time represented by Christiaan Huygens who invented the pendulum clock.
Note: This is the return of the concept of becoming to Philochrony since September 2020. This modifies the conceptual content of parallelochron.
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