Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System

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• Intentional action is a far-from-equilibrium self-organizing dynamical process, not a mechanistic cause-effect chain.claim0.817
  Core thesis: replaces traditional causal theories with dynamical systems account of how prior intentions constrain and guide action.
• Intentional Actionconcept0.794
  Central explanatory target: behavior constrained by prior intentions and contextual constraints that emerge from cognitive reorganization.
• Part II: Dynamical Systems Theory and Human Actionconcept0.789
  Constructive proposal: applies dynamical systems and nonequilibrium thermodynamics to action and intention (Chapters 7–13).
• Information Dynamicsframework0.788
  Proposed theoretical framework combining qualitative and quantitative aspects of information, with explicit treatment of processes and information flow; central organizing concept for the paper.
• Narrative Explanation and the Dynamics of Actionconcept0.778
• complex dynamic systemconcept0.775
  Type of system with many interacting parts that evolves over time; examples in abstract.
• A complex system is one in which users' actions have unseen direct effects and unanticipated indirect effectsclaim0.775
  Jackson's definition of complex systems and motivation for why concepts are essential to user understanding
• What distinguishes intentional action from mere behavior or accident?question0.773
  Driving question for Part I; answered by appeal to whether behavior originated in and was constrained by prior intention.