torekp comments on Agency is bugs and uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: torekp 07 June 2015 03:41:21PM 0 points [-]

I think you're probably right about people's feelings regarding buggy software. But for self-reflection, it's different.

In a slogan: agency is self-fulfilling prophecy. What gives us the feeling of agency is the (usually correct) thought that affirming any of a range of thoughts about our own action, would be self-fulfilling. Jenann Ismael -pdf- has a good discussion.