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Agency

The capacity to initiate, select, and regulate action in relation to goals and conditions.

Direct answer

Agency concerns an agent's capacity to act, influence outcomes, and participate in selecting or regulating behavior. In practice, agency is constrained by information, resources, social conditions, habits, perceived possibility, and available actions.

Mechanism

How it works

  1. 01

    An action must first be represented as available enough to consider.

  2. 02

    Perceived consequences alter whether an option feels selectable.

  3. 03

    Repeated successful action can update perceived possibility and expand future action sets.

Consequence

Why it matters

  1. 01

    Formal freedom can be larger than psychologically permitted action space.

  2. 02

    CWI treats this gap as a decision-relevant mechanism.

Original framework bridge

Brajology

Original MyMindMine framework material is kept visually and epistemically separate from the external evidence layer above.

Brajology index →
  • CWI: people often act within a behavioral corridor of familiar, socially legible actions.
  • PRS tracks how observed success and failure update possibility and risk perception.

Search intent

Questions this page answers

3 questions
What makes an action feel possible?
How is agency constrained?
Can social proof expand agency?

Evidence

Sources

1 cited
  1. 01
    Stanford Encyclopedia: Free WillStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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