Living with the emergence of agents on physical terms

Abstract

Evolutionary emergence of agents in the empirical world is a direct consequence of the indexicality of matter itself. It is grounded upon the act of quantum origin that is accessible indexically with use of our language. One unique aspect of our language rests upon its appraisal of different grammatical tenses, such as the present progressive tense and the perfect one. Both the tenses are indexical in pointing to some movements in progress or registered in stasis as such out there as admitting no anthropocentric interventions. In particular, the material movement mediated by the transfer of the quantum particles is punctuated by the event of the transfer completed so far that can be referred to in the present perfect tense. At the same time, the transfer of the quantum particles can constantly induce the similar transfer in sequence in the following present progressive tense. Constant update of the present perfect tense in the subsequent progressive tense is agential in keeping no inconsistency between the two left behind in the finished record. That is the inconsistency-mediating cohesion acting between the present perfect and the progressive tenses. A most conspicuous case demonstrating the competency of inconsistency-mediating cohesion may be the origins of life. Molecular recognition widely observed in the biological realm is a specific instance of demonstrating such a molecular cohesion.

Keywords: Agent; Cohesion; Indexical activity; Internal measurement; Quantum absorption; Quantum entanglement; Symbol manipulation; Tense.