Constraints are
- relational properties components acquire in virtue of being embedded
in a higher level
SystemJuarrero (1998), 234
- alterations in the probability distribution of a system’s
State
Spaceibid., 240 f
In other words, “[w]hat constraints do is restrict trajectories
from reaching some parts of the state space”.Winning & Bechtel (2018), 293
References
- Juarrero (1998): “Causality as Constraint”
- Juarrero (2000): “Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System”
- Juarrero (2010): “Complex Dynamical Systems Theory”
- Winning & Bechtel (2018): “Rethinking Causality in Biological and Neural Mechanisms: Constraints and Control”