ABSTRACT
This chapter describes very general assumptions about different dimensions of sensory experience and action. It introduces three type of dimension of sensory observation and description, which in their turn are constructed by means of distinctions specific to each of them. The temporal dimension, the material dimension, and the social dimension of sensory information processing are thus established at the level on which distinctions between distinctions are made. The social dimension arises as a discrete mode of observation when the distinction of 'ego' and 'alter' is deployed. The societal problem presented by the instances of time binding appears to be that they lay claim to material and social meaning, thus altering forms and influencing social distributions. The time binding effect of normalization has both a material and a social side to it, and only if and to the extent that this is taken into account, can the resulting form be referred to as law.
