AU Cass 9
Time/Luhmann: Problem: Time must also be observed. - ((s) It then exists only in the isolated events of observation/distinction.)
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Observation/Luhmann, >
Event/Luhmann.
Environment is always simultaneous. Therefore, we cannot react to it.
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Environment/Talcott Parsons.
Alfred Schütz (1932)
(1): no one ages faster.
Luhmann: Everything that happens, happens simultaneously. Therefore, we can do nothing. The system can only treat its own recursion, not the environment.
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Recursion.
Problem of synchronization: always requires intervention in no longer changeable, past and still insecure, indeterminate future.
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Future.
This involves control ideas and causal ideas.
1. Schütz, Alfred (1932). Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt. Eine Einleitung in die verstehende Soziologie. Wien: Springer.
AU Cass 9
Time/observation/Luhmann: Observing is the operation of differentiation.
Question: who differentiates?
Tradition: the distinction results in the categories past, present, future. These categories make time look like a stretch.
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Past, >
Present, >
Future, >
Time.
AU Cass 9
Time/simultaneity/Luhmann: when I say everything that happens, happens simultaneously, I say basically nothing at all about time.
Antonym: asynchrony. But that does not say anything about it.
It is all about observation as a distinction.
Punch line: Future and past occur always at the same time. ((s) In the distinction.)
Asymmetry: only one side of the distinction may be needed.
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Asymmetry.
AU Cass 9
Time/Luhmann: with the "before"/"after" one can renounce the idea of movement. - Also the attribution of causality.
Causality/Luhmann: But the distinction "before"/"after" must precede considerations for causality.
Other distinction: future/past.
Past: Husserl's horizon: before the "before" there was a different "before" etc.
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Horizon/Husserl.
Luhmann: Future is then a horizon that can be filled by a series of "afterwards".
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AU Cass 10
Time/Luhmann: movement is not enough for their definition, because the time is not moving past us. - This saw Aristotle already.
Motion/Hegel/Aristotle: motion is what being differentiates from non-being.
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Motion/Aristotle, >
Change/Aristotle.
