15 Of Intentional Action and Intrinsic Dynamics

As an infant, your spontaneous, self-organizing intrinsic dynamics pretty much ran the show. Later, your newly discovered ability to direct it intentionally was mostly exploratory. But its influence rapidly flourished as you began intentionally directing your coordinated action in the world. Soon, your agency, or intentionally directed intrinsic dynamics, became your rudimentary self-awareness. You became you. This directed, voluntary, purposeful, willed, intentional action—is your “agency directing intrinsic dynamics towards ends”, though you probably don’t think about it that way. If you don’t, you’re not alone. Most of us seldom consider the effects our intentions have on our intrinsic dynamics and vice-versa.