Agent Decision Act
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A Broad-Agent Decision Act is an agent act that is a decision-making act (to a choice task)
- Context:
- It can range from an Individual Agent Decision Act to a Collective Decision Act.
- It can range from being a Positive Agent Decision Act to being a Negative Agent Decision Act.
- It can range from being a Forced Decision Act or to being an Unforced Decision Act.
- It can range from being a Voluntary Decision Act to being an Involuntary Decision Act/Impulsive Act.
- It can range from being an Explicit Agent Decision Act to being an Implicit Agent Decision Act (such as a complict act).
- It can range from being a Random Choice (such as flipping a coin) to being a Deliberate Agent Decision/Voluntary Decision to being a Forced Choice (such as to read a ransom note).
- It can range from being a Subjective Choice to being an Objective Choice.
- It can range from being a Living Organism Decision (such as a human decision act) to being a Mechanical Agent Decision.
- It can be associated with an Agent Motive.
- It can (often) be preceded by an Agent Intention.
- It can (often) be followed by an Agent Act.
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- Example(s):
- a specific Decision to Blink (vs. the act of blinking).
- a specific Decision to Make a Game Move (vs. making a game move).
- a specific Home Defending Act, such as an ant deciding to attack an apparent intruder.
- a specific Procrastinated Decision Act.
- a specific Economic Agent Decision, such as a Shopping Decision Act or a Financial Decision Act.
- a specific Treatment Selection Choice.
- a specific Intentional Random Choice.
- a specific Economic Act.
- a specific Moral Choice.
- a specific Medical Diagnosis Decision Act, e.g. that Jane Doe has diabetes.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Group Decision Act.
- an Involuntary Act, an Unintentional Act, ...
- an Unwillingness to Act.
- a Predetermined Choice.
- a Mechanistic Decision Act.
- a Judging Act.
- See: Formal Game, Causal Relation, Preference, Courageous Act.