Intentional Action

Central explanatory target: behavior constrained by prior intentions and contextual constraints that emerge from cognitive reorganization.

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intentionality
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The capacity to have beliefs, desires, intentions; discussed in the context of AI and speech acts.
Constraints as Causes
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Key reframing: contextual constraints (both bottom-up and top-down) replace mechanistic causation in explaining action.
Embodied Meaning
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Intentions and meanings are grounded in recurrent neural network dynamics; semantic space is embodied in brain topology.

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actionconcept0.848
Changing configuration to sample environment differently; minimizes free energy.
What distinguishes intentional action from mere behavior or accident?question0.831
Driving question for Part I; answered by appeal to whether behavior originated in and was constrained by prior intention.
Intentional Stanceframework0.822
Dennett's framework adopted and extended by TAME to make agency attribution empirical and observer-dependent.
Intentional Agencyconcept0.821
Capacity to set and pursue goals via beliefs, desires, and intentions.
Intentional action is a far-from-equilibrium self-organizing dynamical process, not a mechanistic cause-effect chain.claim0.821
Core thesis: replaces traditional causal theories with dynamical systems account of how prior intentions constrain and guide action.
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex Systemframework0.794
intentional natureconcept0.790
The presence of arbitrary idea and image in design that distorts the unfolding process.
Coordinated actionconcept0.788
The ability of a collective to orchestrate behaviours of its parts towards system-level goals.