Q: IS AGENCY FALSE?
I don’t know why agency is false unless you define it as such that it’s false.
The terms agency, free will, and rational choice, mean ‘within available knowledge, ability, and time’.
AGENCY refers to the capacity to develop increases in prediction and action, that produce the predicted and desired outcomes within the limits of available knowledge and ability. (Marxist agency refers to external obstacles that inhibit your display word and deed. But that’s left wing word-redefinition.)
FREE WILL refers to sufficient agency to make moral decisions (rational choices) again, by successful prediction and action within the limits of available knowledge and ability in time. (For some reason people still confuse free will with physical determinism. But again, that’s a failure of either understanding or a sophistry of word redefinition.)
RATIONAL CHOICE means that all human choices (actions) are rationally explicable under sufficient knowledge of the individual and the circumstances in time. This is why imitation(body), sympathy(mind), empathy(emotion), prediction of intent, and opportunity for cooperation, or communication are possible.(For some reason people confuse rational with logical with optimum instead of rationally explicable given knowledge, and incentives, in time.)
This subject is pretty well covered in behavioral econ so I dont know why it’s still an open question.
-Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-02 03:20:38 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631132379782709249
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631128633480806406
Leave a Reply