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    Neurological compulsion, addiction, and akrasia demonstra... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Human beings must execute the plans they conceive.

    Neurological compulsion, addiction, and akrasia demonstrate that agents routinely conceive plans they are causally incapable of executing.

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    • 1.Addicts form explicit intentions to quit while neurochemistry simultaneously reinforces continued use, showing plan-execution dissociation.
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    • 2.Akratic agents report genuine, conscious commitment to goals they predictably fail to pursue, indicating causal impotence despite intention.
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    • 3.Neuroscience shows prefrontal cortex planning regions can be neurologically overridden by limbic reward systems beyond conscious control.
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    • 1.Failed execution doesn't prove incapacity—agents might plan poorly or face unforeseen obstacles. Incapacity requires showing execution is impossible.
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    • 2.The agent's neurological state causally produced the plan itself, so attributing the plan to a causally-capable agent is consistent with neurology.
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    • 3.Calling it 'incapacity' conflates multiple capacities (impulse control, planning, prediction) rather than identifying which actually failed.
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