Liebe Philweb-Teilnehmer,
zum immer wieder thematisierten Streit um objektivierbares Wissen und subjektive Einsicht
alias Weltall und Lebenswelt hier mein Versuch, das Objekt-Konzept um Perspektivität zu
bereichern. Wie gewohnt sehr schräg, aber in meinen Augen eine mögliche Grundlage für ein
gemeinsames Verständnis - bitte, lasst mich wissen, was Ihr davon haltet!
Es ist als Kapitel für eine revidierte Einreichung für Systems Theory and Behavioral
Science gedacht, daher erstens englisch und zweitens an der Theore-Basis rüttelnd :-)
Trotz aller Schrecken und politischen Versäumnisse frohe Adventstage wünscht
Thomas Fröhlich
A suggestion to reconcile science and humanities
The proposed dynamic systems theory aims to allocate a capacity of tacit judgements to
material agency. These judgements are understood as realizing the agency’s positive
choice. While choosing, the contrasting alternatives shine up but are not remembered and
kept alive afterwards. For the deciding agency, the initial range of options disappears as
soon as its choice has been made. For an external, memory-equipped observer, by memorizing
repeated observations, the full range of options may remain manifest, instead, and keep
being arranged on a same epistemic level. If the observation was valid, its results may be
reprojected into the agency’s moment of choice, even if the agency was only transiently
aware of the positive together with its alternatives on an equal level. So, we may call it
a choice even if the trajectory options were engulfed in the positive to eventually
disappear.
Whereas the agency’s continued presence only contains the positive without a shadow or
memory of the negative, we as observers may call choosing preferred options and this way
tacitly excluding others a choice, seen as if in the agency’s perspective the
corresponding range of options were lined up in parallel and epistemic equivalence.
Retrospectively reinstating the range of options as if it would have been available as
such for the agency then allows understanding the agency’s path as unintentionally
resulting from its tacit choice. Tentatively interpreting this ascribed choice as an
agency’s interpretation by insinuating an imaginary, momentary decision-providing
copresence of options then allows to ascribe interpretive activity to interaction-engaged
entities, including those theorized as co-called objects.
Since making a choice is an activity, time and timing is always implied in this approach.
Since a choice concern something understood as being different from the choosing instance,
a relation and corresponding interaction of at least two different instances is contained
in the suggested approach as well. This allows ascribing the choosing instance a
perspective under which its choosing interpretation is done. As well, a relevance
attribution concerning chosen aspects is seen as being tacitly implied. In the same move,
we see the decision as being an integral part of the choosing agency’s future performance.
The chosen aspects become integrated in the agency’s totality and are kept available in
the case of consistent iteration. Being consequently incorporated, they change the
performing agency’s nature in a reconstructing, self-altering way. Ingestion of chosen
aspects does not compare numerically adding pieces keep distinct and separate; instead, it
has an infiltrating, permeating, diffusely generalizing form, altering the ingesting
agency throughout its complete nature.
In short, we ascribe aspects of relational interpretation that previously have been
reserved for what is called subjective only. This does not annihilate the object character
but enriches it, in being seen as subjectively interpretive as soon as engaging in
interactions that, grace to their internal and outside-oriented consistency turn out to be
identifiable. So, what has been called objects before now is seen as apt to act, and to do
so in an either irreproducible, random or consistent form. As soon as leaving the storage
form of resting capacities formerly called discrete objects, the vitalized potentials
engage in interpreting, enact their perspectives, and tacitly apply relevance allocations.