Temporality Naturalized

Matsuno, Kōichirō

doi:10.3390/philosophies3040045

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“…The self that is durable is constantly striving for not leaving behind any incongruent inconvenience between the supported and the supporting. What underlies the crisp enaction of self-production is the constant update of the present perfect tense in the present progressive tense for the sake of self-durability [ 16 , 17 ]. Here, the self is meant to be something durable on its own.…”

Section: From Inanimate Matter To Functional Mattermentioning

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Semiosis as a Source of Providing Empirical Phenomena with a New Type of Cohesion

Matsuno

2023

Entropy

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Embodying the indexical signs is vital to semiosis as a cohesive material agency mediating between consequents and antecedents. One unique factor of biology compared with standard physics and chemistry is the cohesion enabling the biological components, codes and organizations to accommodate themselves with a specific material embodiment. Every individual body is uniquely biological and requires a specific cohesion of material origin for its own sake that could not be found in the non-living material world. The relevant cohesion comes from the exchange interaction of the atomic quantum particles, such as the carbon atoms, which is far greater than the electrons as a common exchange mediator adopted for the spatial cohesion ubiquitous in physics and chemistry. What is specific to the temporal cohesion latent in the atomic exchange is the immutable identity of the individual quantum particle surviving only over a limited time, while being constantly alternated with the new ones of the same kinds in a successive manner. Semiosis is supported by the underlying teleonomic cohesion, such that the preceding temporal cohesion may constantly induce the succeeding similar one ad infinitum.

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Section: From Inanimate Matter To Functional Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Semiosis as a Source of Providing Empirical Phenomena with a New Type of Cohesion

Matsuno

2023

Entropy

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“…Here, the contemporaneous constellation is about the reaction scheme of reactants further qualified by their past histories available at the present moment of the now which should be a brief reference to being contemporaneous. The now is accordingly relational in referring to something being contemporaneous with something else, whereas the present referred to in the present tense can stand alone and remains at most as an abstraction [16].…”

Section: Empirical Backgroundmentioning

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Accommodating Probability to Durability as Facing the Onset of Biological Phenomena from Within

Matsuno

2020

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Life distinguishes itself from non-life in taking advantage of the cohesion of temporal origin which non-life cannot afford. The temporal cohesion letting the local participants adhere to each other in a contemporaneous manner refers to an instance of the precedent product being pulled into the subsequent production. Setting the precedent is equivalent to preparing the conditions for the subsequent to follow. A concrete implementation of the cohesion of temporal origin, compared with the spatial cohesion common in physics, is found in the natural construction of a reaction cycle with use of the temporal affinity exerted from the immediate local environment. That construction is a temporally local phenomenon in the experiential domain, rather than in the theoretical. The cohesion originating in the local environment is due to the local act of measurement by the environment. A major component of the local environment to each reactant in the reaction cycle is the cycle itself. The cohesion specific to the reaction cycle rests upon the fact that every reaction product from the upstream production in the cycle comes to be fed upon by the immediate downstream production. Every production constituting the reaction cycle is temporally adjacent to and contemporaneous with the similar others residing in the whole cycle, in sharp contrast to the case of the open-ended linear chain of reaction. One externalist scheme of appreciating the internalist enterprise of constructing a durable reaction cycle in a contemporaneous manner may become possible as referring to the Bayesian probability. The durable reaction cycle may be made actual with probability unity under the condition that the products from the preceding production come with the protocol for the similar production to come subsequently.

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“…Let us consider why a caterpillar eating a leaf can be explained in terms of the E-series with second-person negotiators instead of the A-series with first-person agents acting upon the object (Matsuno 2018). Of course, it is not wrong to view the caterpillar's biting as a single anticipatory agent acting upon a non-anticipatory object (Rosen 1985;Louie 2010); however, we propose an alternative view of the same phenomenon from an interactional/communicative standpoint.…”

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How Does Time Flow in Living Systems? Retrocausal Scaffolding and E-series Time

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Anticipatory acts or predictive behavior are prerequisites for living organisms to sustain their survival when escaping from a predator, catching prey, or schooling. For example, catching prey requires that the predator perform some procedures that are equivalent to estimating the directional movement of the prey, its speed and its distance relative to the predator. Underlying these procedures is time experience, which does not adhere to man-made mechanical clocks. Living organisms keep time based on the local activities of each participant and form ecological clocks together. The timekeeping of ecological clocks has been called E-series time, which is interactive in character and consists of mutual alignment of timing that is co-adjusted to each other's movements and rhythms. A main objective of our current work is to illustrate how E-series time is used for flows of anticipatory acts. To explain such predictive moves and their efforts based on how the perspective of the immediate future affects the present, we resort to the organismic activity of revising the preceding acts in retrospect and semiotic scaffolding that extends beyond simple linear causality. Special attention is paid to the construction of the notion of retrocausal scaffolding, which is a series of dialogical punctuations or mutual coordination of rhythms for the joint production of the present moment of now. Retrocausal scaffolding is synonymous with negotiated anticipation, which is a semiotic/communicative account of revising the preceding acts in the present moment.

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Temporality Naturalized

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Semiosis as a Source of Providing Empirical Phenomena with a New Type of Cohesion

Semiosis as a Source of Providing Empirical Phenomena with a New Type of Cohesion

Accommodating Probability to Durability as Facing the Onset of Biological Phenomena from Within

How Does Time Flow in Living Systems? Retrocausal Scaffolding and E-series Time

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