What distinguishes intentional action from mere behavior or accident?

Driving question for Part I; answered by appeal to whether behavior originated in and was constrained by prior intention.

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Intentional action is a far-from-equilibrium self-organizing dynamical process, not a mechanistic cause-effect chain.
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Core thesis: replaces traditional causal theories with dynamical systems account of how prior intentions constrain and guide action.

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Intentional Actionconcept0.831
Central explanatory target: behavior constrained by prior intentions and contextual constraints that emerge from cognitive reorganization.
What is the difference between action and mere behavior in a dynamical systems framework?question0.797
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex Systemframework0.773
Perception is a form of action; perception and action cannot be pulled apartclaim0.769
Enactive consequence: active sampling of world means perception inherently involves action
intentionalityconcept0.750
The capacity to have beliefs, desires, intentions; discussed in the context of AI and speech acts.
The first move, the initiating gesture, the primary action is utterly–and yet only incidentally–profound.claim0.739
Ambivalent profundity of the initiating graphical act.
actionconcept0.738
Changing configuration to sample environment differently; minimizes free energy.
When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.737