Temporality and Measurement

Both the ordinary concept of Time and the classical model of it construe it as a pattern of objective events. In contrast, Kant conceives it as primarily the form of inner experience, and as a pattern of objective events only by analogy. Whitehead's notion of Process implies a third locus of Temporality--the the process of becoming aware by an organism of some influence from its environment. Remaining underdeveloped in this model is that such incorporation is cumulative, since the past of the organism is part of its environment. The thesis here, as has been discussed, takes the cumulative model a step further, by proposing that the immediate environmental influence on an organism is always, first and foremost, its own motility. An advantage of this thesis is that it explains the measurement of Time as derived from the Temporality of Measurement, i. e. measuring is a motile act. For example, a line used to represent a time-span is itself the direct expression of the Temporality of the drawing of it--the ink or lead retains the movement--thereby befitting the line for application, via the proportionality of their respective units, to the Temporality of some other motion.