Thursday, April 10, 2008

Some riffs off Maturana

Some ruminations in progress ...

1.In languaging we mutually coordinate consensual coordinations
2. Languaging is therefore agreeing – reaching agreements on the basis of agreements (the first agreements being mutual co-ordinations of non-verbal activity)
3. Languaging therefore proceeds through the experiencing of discord on the way to accord (ac + coordination)
4. discord discovers autonomy, which is independent localization (independent perspective) and agency, i.e. a separate autonomous thinking, feeling, willing self
5. [Side question: what is a subconscious agreement to remain in undisclosed discord? E.g. two people in co-dependency implicitly agree to not hold one another to account responsibility to self]
6. First-level consensual co-ordinations happen in non-verbal communication between independent animal living systems and might be considered incidences of mutual structural coupling sustained through mutual agency (see parentheses in #2);
6a. The biology is affected by and affects these mutual coordinations, but is not aware of them as such;
6b. This domain of biological beings interacting with one another as totalities does not intersect with the domain of the biological;
7. The consensual co-ordinations are consensual agreements – a form of structural coupling - between biological living systems; they are therefore relations between biological living systems and are therefore not reducible to biological phenomena;
7a. In the co-ordinations between independent biological systems the biology appears as a totality: the "other" appears as a totality to the self, and the concept of self is most likely derived from experience of the other as such a totality;
7aa. One conception of self arises from (or may be derived through) the self folding upon itself, e.g. through denial and repression and self-objectification (which comes from a reaction to others, a dynamic of denial); another conception of self is derived from the experience of the autonomy of another self as a self-contained totality, and the assumption of a like autonomy on the basis of which one goes to "meet" others; the objectified self, folded upon itself, not taking responsibility for itself (caught in denial) is incapable of meeting the Other selves in relations of mutual autonomy, and attempts to catch others in relations of submission and domination;
7b. A biological organism to survive must remain structually intact, and must remain structurally coupled to its environment;
7c. some structural couplings between an organism and its environment, or between an organism and other organisms ( consensual agreements ) are independent of survival – e.g. play or inter-play
8. consensual coordinations between living systems are structural couplings between living systems with some similarities to structural couplings between a living system and its general environment
8a. consensual coordination among a group of persons is more than structural "coupling," it is more than "coupling"; what is a word for "coupling" that involves potentially a large potential number of members? structural "grouping"? Languaging is a mutual consensual structural grouping of organisms each biologically independently structurally coupled with the environment;
8b. for the biology structurally coupled with the environment, there is no environment; hence there is no question of (objectivity) or objectivity;
8c. the consensual structural groupings of organisms are rooted in (objectivity), of which objectivity (without parentheses) is an instance;
8d. when pseudo-consensual structural grouping is achieved through objectivity without parentheses, i.e. domination, a threat-boundary is drawn by a dominator and consensual coordination can go on within the boundaries of the threat
9. the coordination of such consensual coordinations coordinates structural couplings (to create structural couplings of structural couplings) [and/or the coordination of the coordination of structural groupings?]
10. language names the structural couplings and in naming structurally couples
11. the mutual structural coupling – both consensual accords and discords arising on the basis of accords – are more-than-biological
12. the coord of coords is yet another level
13. it can thus be said that agreement and not biology drives languaging;
14. agreement is a group phenomenon that consists in the sustaining of the structural coupling (consensual agreement, accord), which is the public realm or we
15. awareness or experiencing of the we requires cycling between we and not-we, between discord and accord
16. languaging in the form of words-in-use is the heritage and treasure of agreements that houses the achieved “we”
17. an attuning to the agreeing forward – brooking discord in the expectation of new creative accord – is love and being-public (cp. C.S.Peirce: agreement is the end of reason)
18. such attunement actively cultivates power equity in its service
19. languaging as the pathway of agreeing that is evolutionary love

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