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    A process that is caused by external stimulus and proceed... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The perception of beauty is active, not passive.

    A process that is caused by external stimulus and proceeds without voluntary control is passive in the relevant sense, regardless of internal cognitive complexity.

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    • 1.Voluntary control requires the ability to have done otherwise; external stimulus determining outcomes eliminates this possibility.
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    • 2.Internal complexity without control capacity (like sophisticated AI) still lacks agency; passivity depends on causal structure, not cognition.
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    • 3.Subjective experience of deliberation can be an illusion; if external causes fully determine it, voluntary control is absent regardless.
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    • 1.Complex internal deliberation constitutes a form of agency even if causally determined; agency doesn't require exemption from causation.
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    • 2.Whether a process is 'passive' depends on whether it engages the subject's own reasoning capacities, not merely on external stimulus origin.
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    • 3.Humans evolved internal mechanisms precisely to buffer external stimuli and generate independent responses; these mechanisms define active agency.
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