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Explaining self-organizing action requires narrative (hermeneutic) explanation, not deductive law-like subsumption.

Justifies why dynamical accounts necessitate stories; historical, contextual unfolding cannot be captured by timeless laws.

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Relational self, care & aliveness
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Self as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
Narrative dynamics of intentional selfhood
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Self-organizing action and identity explained through hermeneutic narrative rather than mechanistic causation, emphasizing goal-scales and far-from-equilibrium processes.
Narrative explanation of self-organization
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Argues hermeneutic/narrative explanation irreducibly replaces deductive-nomological models for dynamical systems.

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Dynamical Systems Theory
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Mathematical and conceptual framework for modeling complex self-organizing systems; applied here to action and cognition.
Narrative Explanation
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Juarrero argues that explaining self-organizing action requires hermeneutic narrative, not deductive law-like regularity.

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