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.