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Choice control by higher order constraints operating through downward causation occurs when physical conditions are underdetermined by laws and permitted by boundary conditions. Life creates a web of “enablements”: newly available econiches to expand into. Competition creates cooperation. Adaptive systems—with expectations “built in”—in learning and cognition function by incorporating feed forward modeling into cybernetic (feedback) control. Economic orders have no agency, so do not anticipate: they are sources of information for cognizing agents. Adaptive behavior is (downward) causal (push from past), not teleological (pull from future). Physical theory also requires a duality of descriptions. Rules of behavior are not laws of nature.
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Weimer, W.B. (2023). Complimentarities of Physicality and Functionality Yield Unavoidable Dualisms. In: Epistemology of the Human Sciences. Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17173-4_12
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