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Probability Spaces as reality

May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 by jessitron

In Dynamics in Action, Alicia Juarrero describes human action as a selection, a sample, from probability space. Everything we could do, and the likelihood of each, is a function of our situation, our habits, and our intentions. From this we select some action in each moment. Karl Popper calls these possible actions propensities, and he … Read moreProbability Spaces as reality

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