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claim:intentional-action-is-a-far-from-equilibrium-self-organizing-dynamical-process-not-a-mechanistic-cause-effect-chain

Intentional action is a far-from-equilibrium self-organizing dynamical process, not a mechanistic cause-effect chain.

Core thesis: replaces traditional causal theories with dynamical systems account of how prior intentions constrain and guide action.

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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.

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Causal Theories of Action
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Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.

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What distinguishes intentional action from mere behavior or accident?
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Driving question for Part I; answered by appeal to whether behavior originated in and was constrained by prior intention.

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Intentional Actionconcept0.821
Central explanatory target: behavior constrained by prior intentions and contextual constraints that emerge from cognitive reorganization.
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex Systemframework0.817
Intentional Agencyconcept0.769
Capacity to set and pursue goals via beliefs, desires, and intentions.
When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.766
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.754
Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
intentionalityconcept0.753
The capacity to have beliefs, desires, intentions; discussed in the context of AI and speech acts.
intentional natureconcept0.747
The presence of arbitrary idea and image in design that distorts the unfolding process.
The sticker-removal behavior induced by the self-prior corresponds to stimulus-elicited intention rather than endogenous intention, aligning with the developmental view of early intentional agencyclaim0.741
Connects the model's behavior to Zaadnoordijk and Bayne's taxonomy of intentional agency