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Is icchā-jñāna-kriyā a necessary architecture of manifestation or an anthropomorphic projection of human agency?
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"question_id": "q:iccha-jnana-kriya-necessary",
"question": "Is icchā-jñāna-kriyā a necessary architecture of manifestation or an anthropomorphic projection of human agency?",
"tags": [
"trika",
"agency",
"manifestation",
"active-inference"
],
"status": "underdetermined",
"confidence": 0.3,
"evidence_for": [],
"evidence_against": [],
"best_answer": "The triad shows strong structural correspondence with preference-model-policy in active inference, suggesting a minimal architecture of agency. However, Trika asserts this as a cosmic necessity while active inference treats it as organismic. Whether the cosmic claim follows from the phenomenological evidence is unresolved.",
"parent_question": null,
"sub_questions": [],
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"ro:matter-of-wonder",
"ro:utpaladeva-ipk",
"ro:hermeneutics-of-absolute"
],
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"last_updated": "2026-07-26",
"last_updated_by": "system"
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