Will, Comprehension, Being

In Being and Time, Heidegger pioneers a model of Experience in which cognition is not discrete from other organic processes. Accordingly, with some modifications of that model, the homeostatic function of Comprehension can be appreciated as 'Ontological'. The first of those modifications is the transformation of one's engagement with one's environment from a deficient mode to the expression of a positive principle, i. e. of Will. Second, a cumulative concept of Temporality replaces his 'ec-static' one. Finally, 'Being' is understood, in all cases, to be the Being of some specific person, which Heidegger insists upon in B & T, but seemingly strays from later, when 'Being' appears in contrast to 'beings'. The result of the modifications is a concept of Being as fundamentally a process of growth, entailing Will introducing experiential novelty, and Comprehension as integrating the novelty into the ongoing development of Being. As such, Comprehension re-stabilizes Being, a homeostatic process that can thus be classified as 'Ontological'.