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What Do Autonomous Sensibility-Related, Understanding-Related, and Judgment-Related Operations Do to Scientific Reality? Autonomous Science, Operational Shapes, Transcendental Conditions, Real Effects, and Xenoscience

Fujie, Naoto · 2026
PhilArchive · Papers · 2026
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This paper investigates how autonomous scientific arrangements generate, modify, and reorganize the conditions of observation, object individuation, and rule application. Sensibility-related, understanding-related, and judgment-related operations are examined as historically informed analytical distinctions whose applicability to nonhuman scientific arrangements must be established under specified conditions. The analysis develops a configuration-dependent account of operational autonomy, distinguishing the scope of condition modification, endogenous selection, downstream operational uptake, and independent validation. It examines how autonomous transformations of sensing arrangements, object-identity criteria, and standards of evidential adequacy can overlap, conflict, or cease to apply. Drawing on Kant, Hegel, Sellars, Brassier, and contemporary debates concerning autonomous science, the paper distinguishes material picturing, signifying, propositional truth, inferential justification, nonconceptual causal organization, and rational revision. A locally typed operational notation provides a comparative framework for tracking real effects, feedback, reorganization, and changes in subsequent possibilities. A hypothetical autonomous radiation laboratory illustrates how modifications of sensing conditions, target individuation, and adequacy criteria can transform scientific access while generating distinct material consequences. The analysis separates operational autonomy, empirical adequacy, and inferential entitlement, and distinguishes the expansion of scientific access from the production of new physical arrangements. The paper develops a revisable methodology for investigating autonomous scientific operations without presupposing human faculties or conceptual representation as universal prerequisites. Its experimental comparisons remain proposals, and its formal claims are limited to the specified local framework.
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