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    If the impossibility stems from a representational choice... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The frame problem makes complete action specification virtually impossible in common-sense AI settings

    If the impossibility stems from a representational choice rather than the nature of action, the claim conflates a design limitation with a principled barrier.

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    • 1.Representational systems can always be redesigned; the laws of action cannot. This distinction is foundational to separating contingent from necessary limits.
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    • 2.Conflating design choices with principled barriers prevents us from identifying what could be reformed versus what must be accepted about human agency.
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    • 3.Many claimed impossibilities in action have been overcome by changing representational frameworks (e.g., moral agency expanded by revising personhood definitions).
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    • 1.The distinction between representational and principled barriers may itself be a representational choice with no ground-level reality beneath it.
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    • 2.Some design limitations are *so deeply embedded* in cognition or language that treating them as contingent misses how they constitute the possibility of action itself.
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    • 3.Historical evidence shows we often mistake reformed representations for overcome barriers—the barrier may have simply moved, not disappeared.
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