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TERM-094: action readiness, with control precedence, in Frijda's sense: a state of preparation for action, not a representation of a desirable state, that claims control over behaviour by persisting until an end state, resuming after interruption, capturing attention and taking priority over other actions

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Properties5
StatusActive
Tagsemotion-and-affect, agency
Linewill-organization
ComplementsTERM-017 — precedence, jurisdiction and suspension, TERM-078 — persistent potential: an ordinal potential of a negotiation that is the same, up to its class, across successive windows of time, that decides the conflicts it bears on (priority), and towards which the dynamics climb again after a perturbation (resumption); exact when no move outside a perturbation descends it, and then a Lyapunov function of the one-move-at-a-time dynamics, and approximate when some do, and then no Lyapunov function, short of a drift condition that needs a cardinal potential and further assumptions
Cited as “uses” byCLAIM-039 — Affective states can be properties of organized systems, characterized functionally as Frijda characterizes emotions, without implying subjective experience, CLAIM-275 — An intervention can come before the interpretation it makes available, so in an organization of processes meaning, policy and influence can co-evolve, and none of them is upstream of the others in every case, CLAIM-283 — The precedence a motive claims over action and the authority the rest of the organization grants it are different quantities: a motive can claim control without receiving it, and be granted control it does not claim, CLAIM-355 — In a distributed agent the binding of appraisal, readiness and governance into one response can be real while the single owner a self-model or collective self-description attributes it to is a representational construction, not a further entity; the illusion, where there is one, is in the attribution and belongs to whichever system adopts the representation, and this deflates the self without settling whether experience is real, CLAIM-440 — An organization's appraisal is the negotiation among its perspectives, a common currency is that negotiation's admitting an ordering of the options it faces, and goal-conduciveness valence is a regime in which an ordering of the organization's own states by their bearing on its maintenance prevails in the negotiation; so valence presupposes contested rankings, not frustrated demands, its sign is whether the organization runs ahead of or behind a reference course along the potential ordering, its intensity is how far the negotiation's decisions follow that ordering, and ambivalence, where no ordering prevails, differs from neutrality, where one prevails and the organization keeps to its course, CLAIM-442 — Frijda's emotion and the potential account's system valence sit on opposite sides of the gap between the precedence a motive claims and the authority it is granted: an emotion, action readiness claiming control precedence, is a claim, a perspective's valence is read on its claims, and the system's valence is read on what the negotiation grants, so a change in grants with the claims fixed, as mindfulness is said to make, changes the system's valence and leaves the perspectives' emotions and valences as they were, CLAIM-484 — Internal conflict is the gap between the precedence a motive claims over action and the authority the rest of the organization grants it, CLAIM-527 — Viable reach, valence and emotion are three quantities in an organization, not one: an emotion is a claim to precedence, system valence is movement along the ordering that wins the negotiation, and a change in what the organization can viably reach is neither, so an organization can run ahead along its prevailing ordering while its viable reach contracts

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Definition

Action readiness is a state of preparation for action: “not representations of desirable states, but actual preparations for action” (LIT-540, C1 in NOTE-433). A state of action readiness has control precedence when it claims control over behaviour by four marks:

  • persistence until an end state;
  • resumption after interruption;
  • selective attention: it captures attention;
  • priority over other actions.

Control precedence is a claim the state makes. Whether the claim is granted is a further question, which is CLAIM-283’s distinction between claimed precedence and granted authority.

The distinctions it draws

  • From THEORY-055. That account says what elicits a state of readiness (an appraisal of pertinence to a concern) and that emotions differ by their mode of readiness. Both are contested by THEORY-057. This term says only what a state of readiness is and how it claims control. Using the term commits a claim to neither half of THEORY-055.
  • From TERM-017. TERM-017’s precedence is a maintained relation among an agent’s regimes. This term’s precedence is a property claimed by one state. CLAIM-283 joins the two.
  • TERM-078 takes three of the marks (priority, persistence, resumption) as the marks of a persistent potential in a negotiation.

Source

Frijda, Ridderinkhof and Rietveld (2014), LIT-540, read in full in NOTE-433. The paper cites the concept to Frijda’s The Emotions (LIT-546), which is Unavailable and unread.

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