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concept:part-ii-dynamical-systems-theory-and-human-actionPart II: Dynamical Systems Theory and Human Action
Constructive proposal: applies dynamical systems and nonequilibrium thermodynamics to action and intention (Chapters 7–13).
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- Part I: Why Action Theory Rests on a Mistakeassociated_withSystematic deconstruction of Newtonian/mechanistic assumptions underlying traditional causal theories of action (Chapters 1–6).
- Epistemological consequence: shows why narrative explanation is necessary for explaining self-organizing action (Chapters 14–15).
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- Mathematical and conceptual framework for modeling complex self-organizing systems; applied here to action and cognition.
- Framework treating cognitive processes as continuous dynamical phenomena rather than discrete computational steps; compatible with biogenic view.
- Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.
- Second central claim: life and machine form a continuous multidimensional space, not discrete bins
- Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
- Autopoietic aspect of active inference.