Living in Spin

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All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act, and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped: the relation is circular. Many narratives can be told of an act, not all consistent. Some features of human action: - events "off-stage" determine what's happening "on-stage", - many actions ``pass through'' motions in view, - an act can be changed after the fact, - action presupposes language, - what an act is can be highly ambiguous, - we judge acts (and narratives) because we have a stake in them.

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