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Amahury J. López-díaz

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A Matter of Time: Towards a General Theory of Agency

arXiv Preprint Archive June 22, 2026 Amahury J. López-díaz, Carlos Gershenson

Agency is often invoked in research on philosophy, biology, and cognitive science without a clear account of how it originates from material organization. Building on temporally parametrized (F, A)-systems, this paper develops a graded organizational theory of agency grounded in relational biology, physical biosemiotics, and process ontology. We argue that self-referential closure cannot be...