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Defining Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry, and Spatio-temporality in Action
Paper summary
Develops a definition of agency around self-defined individuality, active contribution to interaction, and regulation relative to norms. Minimal protocellular models motivate a generative organizational account.
Relevance to the project
Directly informs boundary, intrinsic tendency, and behavioral-origin questions. Could guide causal tests of which processes belong to an entity versus its environment.
The proposed criteria are theoretical positions, not adopted project definitions.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1177-1059712309343819
- Archived version
- Author-hosted published journal PDF
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1177-1059712309343819/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.