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Comment author: timtyler 12 October 2009 08:35:09AM *  -1 points [-]

Disposition-Based Decision Theory has the feature that it requires a conceptual split between an initial state and subsequent activity as well. However, exactly where the initial state snapshot is taken turn out not to be critical - provided it is "early enough" - and the paper introducing DBDT describes what "early enough" means.