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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=JA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>On 20 Oct 2017 at 4:47 AM, Stanley N. Salthe wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Here is an interesting recent treatment of autonomy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:15.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Autonomy is an authentic notion, albeit a bit intriguing. While no authority to talk down to the rest is allowed in there, an organized whole is in place. Every member element of an autonomy is then going to participate in forming the collective decisions made by the supporting autonomous unit. One prototypic example demonstrating the coordinated decision-making is a quantum measurement. The consequence of the measurement is simply an outcome of the decision-making transaction between an object to be measured and its measurement apparatus. Neither of the two dominates the other. Both of them are malleable to each other. This malleability may meet a requirement for approaching a robust autonomy with use of a lot of measurement apparatuses of natural origin whose armory is extremely rich. Measurement in quantum physics could be open to experiencing if the sequence of measurement of a measurement happens to constitute a loop without ending up with a mere accumulation of random events. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Any autonomous unit like an embodied loop in spacetime may become durable if it can succeed in furnishing itself with the affinity towards detecting and implementing the conditions for its further durability through, for instance, the exchange of material components. Apropos, figuring out the affinity towards the conditions for duration, rather than those for conservation, is already sufficiently informational in referring to what the autonomy is all about on the physical basis. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Koichiro Matsuno<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Fis [mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stanley N Salthe<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 20, 2017 4:47 AM<br><b>To:</b> Terrence W. DEACON <deacon@berkeley.edu>; fis <fis@listas.unizar.es><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] What is “Agent”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Here is an interesting recent treatment of autonomy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=gmail-p1><span lang=EN-US>Alvaro Moreno and Matteo Mossio: Biological Autonomy: A Philosophical<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p1><span lang=EN-US>and Theoretical Enquiry (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 12);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p1><span lang=EN-US>Springer, Dordrecht, 2015, xxxiv + 221 pp., $129 hbk, ISBN 978-94-017-9836-5<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p1><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p1><span lang=EN-US>STAN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>