From the perspective of states or entities that could be acted upon, the potential to act is inherently non-neutral. Herein the relational in agency seems affecting.

The capacity to take actions that might alter other states introduces a dynamic that moves away from neutrality. Thus, entities with agency are viewed as having the potential to influence or change other states, making them inherently less neutral than entities that lack agency and, therefore, lack the potential to effect change.

Does this highlight that while the abstract concept of agency might initially appear neutral, its implications and the perspectives of those potentially affected by agency reveal its non-neutral nature?

If entering an awareness of being set in an acceleratingly expanding universe, or a multitude thereof, exposes one then the limitations of this thinking?

--animasuri'24

Triggers

Scoles, S. (2023, August 29). Will the Universe Ever Stop Expanding? Scientists debate what the future of the cosmos looks like and whether space will ever stop getting bigger and bigger. Online: Scientific American, Springer Nature. Retrieved on 6 June 2024 from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-the-universe-ever-stop-expanding1/

Thrift, E. (2014). Agency. IN: Teo, T. (Ed.). (2014). Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. New York, NY, USA: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7 page 62 on “Agency” and page 67 on “Is Agency Moral?“