Clathrand's Contention

Clathrand’s Contention is the name given to an observation attributed to Fraa Clathrand: the directed‑acyclic networks used in Complex Protism are isomorphic to ordinary cause‑and‑effect in spacetime. Read this way, the arrows in Protist diagrams behave like “light‑bubble” constraints—information flows one way and never loops back. In this framing, givens about the cnoöns reach minds as if from the past: they can shape our thinking, but nothing we do now can change them. The view engages directly with the Hylaean Theoric World, without settling its ontology.

Origins and attribution place the idea with an Edharian avout who advanced from Centenarian to Millenarian; later accounts say manuscripts at the Concent of Saunt Edhar preserved the remark. The Contention gained wider circulation after its initial notice and is now a common reference point in discussions that contrast Simple and Complex Protism.

Current use is practical and didactic. In messal debate at a large Convox, senior theors have invoked the Contention to justify reading Protist arrows as one‑way information flow, while skeptics ask what it actually gets them beyond a suggestive picture. One clarification offered in conversation is that we are “perceiving—not remembering” the cnoöns: a cosmographer who sees a distant star explode perceives it now even though the event lay in the past; by analogy, minds perceive fixed givens without altering them.

Scope and limits are kept explicit. Clathrand’s Contention does not, by itself, prove that the Hylaean Theoric World exists as a separate realm, nor does it supply a test for that claim. Rather, it supplies a way to read Protist diagrams that fits everyday causality, giving teachers a shared visual language (Wick, Strider, Firing Squad, and similar DAGs) for talking about one‑way percolation of information across cosmi.