Agency

notes constrained but not powerless from metafilter So the gist is that we do not have free will and we are not free agents. However we have constrained and limited agency. Like Kant noted this agency comes from our mind that is constrained to make sense of the outside world from sensory inputs. no more no less. The agency we have is for our survival in this world. for example, it is evolved for us to learn language easily. it’s hard for us to understand birds’ tunes or whales’ calls. for human being, we have access to two realms, one is our consciousness or the thought realm and the other our actions to change our surroundings or the action realm. the essence of life is a transformer to turn some inputs such as food, words, sensory data into something totally different like a tree from a seed. ...