Animals perform standard actions {behavior} that depend on bodies, objects, and events.
causes
Personal and social states, such as shame, taboo, awe, mystery, and consensus, control behavior.
motor response
Motor response starts assembling early in visual analysis, using orientation cues and learned behaviors.
will
Motor cortex receives input before people act [Walter, 1953].
voluntary muscle control
Voluntary muscle control requires current-state consciousness.
aging
Manual abilities increase to maximum at age 26 and then slowly decline. Verbal ability increases after age 21, peaks at age 50, and then declines sharply after age 70.
children
Children often annoy or injure people without control or concern for situation. Children often escalate playful fighting into deliberate injury.
explanation
Human-action explanations must differ from physical-event explanations {Verstehen, explanation}. Action explanations use beliefs, intentions, desires, judgments, perceptions, decision theory, rationality, and agency.
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