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=====1.2.1.2.  Observation and Observables=====

=====1.2.1.2.  Observation and Observables=====

Independently of their distinctness as categories, what is the relation of the observing and the observable as roles played out in the theater of observation?  Observation may be the noting of internal or external events, but more than contemplation it requires the possibility of leaving a record.  Nothing serves as observation unless notches can be made in a medium that retains the indenture through time.  By this analysis, observation is found to be involved in the very same relation that signs have to their objects.  The observation is a sign of its observed object, event, or action.  In spite of the active character of concrete observation, it still seems convenient in theoretical models (like turing machines) to divide observation across two abstract components:  an active, empirical part that arranges apparatus for a complex test and goes looking for what's happening (on unforeseen segments of tape), and a passive, logical part that represents the elementary reception and pure contingency of simply noting without altering what's under one's nose (or read head).

Independently of their distinctness as categories, what is the relation of the  

observing and the observable as roles played out in the theater of observation?   

Observation may be the noting of internal or external events, but more than  

contemplation it requires the possibility of leaving a record.  Nothing serves  

as observation unless notches can be made in a medium that retains the indenture  

through time.  By this analysis, observation is found to be involved in the very  

same relation that signs have to their objects.  The observation is a sign of  

its observed object, event, or action.  In spite of the active character of  

concrete observation, it still seems convenient in theoretical models  

(like turing machines) to divide observation across two abstract components:  an  

active, empirical part that arranges apparatus for a complex test and goes  

looking for what's happening (on unforeseen segments of tape), and a passive,  

logical part that represents the elementary reception and pure contingency of  

simply noting without altering what's under one's nose (or read head).

=====1.2.1.3.  Observation and Interpretation=====

=====1.2.1.3.  Observation and Interpretation=====