| Sumario: | Here I should like to explore a conception of ontological structure that has but few precedents. The idea is that certain structures are basic in the formation of the world, deep structures that define basic modes of being for things in the world, modes that make a thing the thing it is. We might think of this deep structure of a thing as an algorithmic formation of the thing itself. I'll develop a variation on Whitehead's model of "concrescence", or "becoming" a concrete entity, drawing on Husserl's conceptions of dependence, dependent parts, and manifolds, and Ingarden's conception of modes of being. In the end I'll apply this model of concrescence to Husserl's analysis of the deep structure of consciousness, including time-consciousness and body-consciousness. Into this model I'll draw Hintikka's conception of intentional modalities, including perceptual possibility, to bring out a structure of modes-of-being for a conscious visual experience.
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