ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a rational reconstruction of some of the results of all that long-term philosophical agency about rational human minded animal agency. It describes the causally efficacious power of the minded animal will in basic intentional actions, that is, intentional body movements, against the metaphysical backdrops of the essential embodiment theory of the mind-body relation and metaphysics of free agency, Natural Libertarianism. The chapter also describes some relevant comparisons and contrasts between the views about essentially embodied intentional action and O’Shaughnessy’s dual aspect theory of intentional action. It argues for the existence of a self-evident, veridical phenomenology of essentially embodied free agency, aka rational human minded animal agency. The first-order consciousness or subjective experience of life and vitality, insofar as it essentially non-conceptually and veridically picks out immanent structural properties of non-equilibrium thermodynamic systems, is inherently anti-mechanical and uncomputable.
