On 20 Oct 2017 at 4:47 AM, Stanley N. Salthe wrote:
Here is an interesting recent treatment of autonomy.
Autonomy is an authentic notion, albeit a bit intriguing. While no authority to
talk down to the rest is allowed in there, an organized whole is in place.
Every member element of an autonomy is then going to participate in forming the
collective decisions made by the supporting autonomous unit. One prototypic
example demonstrating the coordinated decision-making is a quantum measurement.
The consequence of the measurement is simply an outcome of the decision-making
transaction between an object to be measured and its measurement apparatus.
Neither of the two dominates the other. Both of them are malleable to each
other. This malleability may meet a requirement for approaching a robust
autonomy with use of a lot of measurement apparatuses of natural origin whose
armory is extremely rich. Measurement in quantum physics could be open to
experiencing if the sequence of measurement of a measurement happens to
constitute a loop without ending up with a mere accumulation of random events.
Any autonomous unit like an embodied loop in spacetime may become durable if
it can succeed in furnishing itself with the affinity towards detecting and
implementing the conditions for its further durability through, for instance,
the exchange of material components. Apropos, figuring out the affinity towards
the conditions for duration, rather than those for conservation, is already
sufficiently informational in referring to what the autonomy is all about on
the physical basis.
Koichiro Matsuno
From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Stanley N Salthe
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 4:47 AM
To: Terrence W. DEACON <dea...@berkeley.edu>; fis <fis@listas.unizar.es>
Subject: Re: [Fis] What is “Agent”?
Here is an interesting recent treatment of autonomy.
Alvaro Moreno and Matteo Mossio: Biological Autonomy: A Philosophical
and Theoretical Enquiry (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
12);
Springer, Dordrecht, 2015, xxxiv + 221 pp., $129 hbk, ISBN 978-94-017-9836-5
STAN
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