Part I: Why Action Theory Rests on a Mistake

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• Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.728
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• How do the parts discern which of their actions should be reinforced?question0.724
  Core credit assignment question for distributed systems.
• Alexander's experiments showed different people can agree on which actions are more structure-preserving or life-bearingfinding0.722
  Repeated experiments demonstrating that people of good will can reach substantial agreement about the life of a design decision.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.722
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.722
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• Process theories can be derived from variational principles in a straightforward manner with biological plausibility.hypothesis0.718
  Paper's core methodological hypothesis: gap between normative and process-level theories can be bridged.
• "active inference separates the problems of optimizing action and perception by assuming that action fulfills predictions based on inferred states"quote0.715
• Causal Theories of Actionconcept0.712
  Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.