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DRMacIver's Notebook: Action generators

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Now, without leaving your current position, do something with your left hand without touching anything with it. Now, without leaving your current position, do something with your left hand that feels good, without touching anything with it. Each of these instructions is an action generator: Something that prompts you to act in the world. These can be instructions, but they can also be observations, thoughts, etc. If a ball comes flying towards your head, you hopefully duck. Action generator! Any action generator has the default response to it: Do nothing. When I told you to do something, you probably ignored it and kept reading (this is of course doing something). Possibly by the end the instructions were interesting enough that you went "Oh, sure, I'll give that a go.", possibly not. Doing nothing isn't always a good idea. If you have a do nothing response to the ball flying towards your head, you get hit. Hope it's not a cricket ball. Those hurt. A lot. The thing about the list of ac

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