{"id":9220,"date":"2025-06-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2024-12-18T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:29:55","slug":"looking-at-alexei-sharov-and-morten-tonnessens-chapter-2021-human-agency-part-5-of-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9220","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Alexei Sharov and Morten Tonnessen&#8217;s Chapter (2021) &#8220;Human Agency&#8221; (Part 5 of 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1260 Say what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the intersection, once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide344.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide344.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide344.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide344-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1261 Yes, I can make out a configuration that looks like an exemplar sign-relation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One version of the exemplar relation goes like this.&nbsp;&nbsp;Information<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;(SV<sub>e<\/sub>) stands for a goal (SO<sub>e<\/sub>) in regards to a normal context asking something like, &#8220;Does this make sense?&#8221;<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;operating on the potential of &#8216;situating information&#8217;<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;(SI<sub>e<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above diagram, information<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;(SV<sub>e<\/sub>) is adaptation<sub>2H<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The goal<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;(SO<sub>e<\/sub>) is the power to live as an agent.&nbsp;&nbsp;The [contiguity] (SI<sub>e<\/sub>) is an intersection with the phenotype<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;operating on the potentials that the phenotype provides<sub>1c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1262 For the -darwinism version of exemplar sign-relation, the two actualities are adaptation<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;(SV<sub>e<\/sub>) and the power to live as agent<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;(SO<sub>e<\/sub>).&nbsp;&nbsp;The contiguity is&nbsp;<em>the normal context of an intersection with one&#8217;s phenotype<sub>3c<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;operating on the&nbsp;<em>potentials that the phenotypes provide<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;(SI<sub>e<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide345.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide345.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide345.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide345-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1263 For the neo- version of the exemplar sign-relation, the two actualities are phenotype<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;(SV<sub>e<\/sub>) and the disposition to live as an agent<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;(SO<sub>e<\/sub>).&nbsp;&nbsp;The contiguity is&nbsp;<em>the normal context of an intersection with one&#8217;s adaptations<sub>3c<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;operating on&nbsp;<em>the potentials that adaptations provide<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;(SI<sub>e<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide346.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide346.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide346.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide346-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1264 What do these two exemplar sign-relations tell us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Adaptations&nbsp;<\/em>express<em>&nbsp;power?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Adaptations<\/em>&nbsp;allow survival to the extent that&nbsp;<em>the phenotype allows them?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Phenotypes&nbsp;<\/em>express&nbsp;<em>dispositions?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Phenotypes<\/em>&nbsp;are expressed as&nbsp;<em>a suite of adaptations<\/em>&nbsp;whether the agent needs them or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No wonder biologists cannot &#8220;define&#8221; evolution concisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1265 Surely, this argument does not please the positivist intellect of the physicists and the chemists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Biological evolution<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>a mystery<\/em>, the intersection of two independent sciences, natural history and genetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, that is not all.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can delineate&nbsp;<em>an implication for one of the contradictions inherent in biological evolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phenotype is necessary for a -darwinian explanation, where &#8220;evolution&#8221; operates as an agent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Phenotypic dispositions are inseparable from individual adaptive powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1266 Also, adaptation is necessary for a neo- (or genetic) explanation, where &#8220;evolution&#8221; operates as an agent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Adaptive powers are inseparable from species-specific dispositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1267 Yes, I am arriving at a contradiction that cannot be resolved into either natural history or genetics.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both of&nbsp;<em>these discipline&#8217;s semiotic agency<\/em>&nbsp;have the same agent, &#8220;evolution&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, what is the &#8216;final causality&#8217;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide347.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide347.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide347.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide347-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1268 Here,&nbsp;<em>the logics of firstness<\/em>&nbsp;come into play.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The logics of firstness<\/em>&nbsp;are inclusive and allow contradictions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Evolution as an agent<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;brings&nbsp;<em>the actualities of adaptation and phenotype as semiotic agencies<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into relation&nbsp;<em>with &#8216;a creative potential that evolutionary scientists regard as real&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, it is unreal, because it represents a &#8216;final causality&#8217; that stands beyond&nbsp;<em>anything than the human can imagine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all,&nbsp;<em>humans<\/em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>evolved living beings<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>What are we imaging<\/em>&nbsp;when we try to picture&nbsp;<em>this &#8216;final causality&#8217;?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1269&nbsp;<em>Modern evolutionary biologists<\/em>&nbsp;may attribute&nbsp;<em>the reality of the creative potential underlying evolution as an agent&nbsp;<\/em>to matter alone, rather than&nbsp;<em>matter [substance] form<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Postmodern biosemioticians<\/em>&nbsp;may attribute&nbsp;<em>the reality of the creative potential to triadic relations,<\/em>&nbsp;such as&nbsp;<em>the triadic relations reified into the matter [substance] form of semiotic agency<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1270 What does this imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The attribution of the biosemiotician<\/em>&nbsp;encompasses&nbsp;<em>the attribution of modern evolutionary biology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer approaches the&nbsp;<em>metaphysical<\/em>&nbsp;in precisely the way that&nbsp;<em>the Aristotle-tolerating positivist intellect<\/em>&nbsp;currently uses the term, &#8220;metaphysics&#8221;, for &#8220;religious&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The positivist intellect declares, &#8220;Religious empirio-schematic models are not allowed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1271 And, this raises a question, &#8220;How to define the word &#8220;religion?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This question is&nbsp;<em>the title of one of Razie Mah&#8217;s three masterworks<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1260 Say what? 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