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claim:contextual-constraints-top-down-and-bottom-up-replace-efficient-causation-in-explaining-actionContextual constraints (top-down and bottom-up) replace efficient causation in explaining action.
Foundational reframing that allows Juarrero to dissolve traditional puzzles like wayward causal chains.
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- Relational self, care & alivenessmembers_ofSelf as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
- Framework treating aliveness and cognition as emergent from locally symmetric sub-configurations across scales, measured via coherence metrics rather than physical substrate.
- Top-down vs bottom-up semantic causationmembers_ofContrasts Fregean compositional semantics with holistic context-driven meaning determination.
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- Mechanistic Causation (Newtonian Model)contradictsTraditional efficient causation paradigm; Juarrero argues it is inadequate for understanding intentional action and self-organizing systems.
- Wayward Causal Chainsanswered_byClassic objection to causal theories of action; Juarrero dissolves it by treating intentions as semantic constraints that immediately guide motor dynamics.
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