Mobile Sequencers

TL;DR

This paper explores the semantics of change in language and action, proposing mobile sequencers as agents that structure and interpret sequences to understand change and stability across linguistic and planning systems.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of mobile sequencers as a unifying framework for understanding change in language and action, emphasizing the role of sequencing in structural interpretation.

Findings

Sequencing adds structural interpretation beyond immediate sequence content.

Mobile sequencers serve as agents structuring and tracking change and no change.

The approach links linguistics, computer science, and anthropology in understanding extended human practices.

Abstract

The article is an attempt to contribute to explorations of a common origin for language and planned-collaborative action. It gives `semantics of change' the central stage in the synthesis, from its history and recordkeeping to its development, its syntax, delivery and reception, including substratal aspects. It is suggested that to arrive at a common core, linguistic semantics must be understood as studying through syntax mobile agent's representing, tracking and coping with change and no change. Semantics of actions can be conceived the same way, but through plans instead of syntax. The key point is the following: Sequencing itself, of words and action sequences, brings in more structural interpretation to the sequence than which is immediately evident from the sequents themselves. Mobile sequencers can be understood as subjects structuring reporting, understanding and keeping track of change and no change. The idea invites rethinking of the notion of category, both in language and in planning. Understanding understanding change by mobile agents is suggested to be about human extended practice, not extended-human practice. That's why linguistics is as important as computer science in the synthesis. It must rely on representational history of acts, thoughts and expressions, personal and public, crosscutting overtness and covertness of these phenomena. It has implication for anthropology in the extended practice, which is covered briefly.