Map
Organize relations between states, places, possibilities, and likely transitions.
Mapping Adaptive Agency
Placeness is more than a coordinate. It emerges when the mind's predictions about the world align with what the body can perceive, inhabit, and act within. Mapping adaptive agency begins with understanding how that alignment is formed, challenged, and restored.
A map is useful only if it can guide action through change.
These are not separate abilities. They form a continuous process of organizing the situation, anticipating what it permits, and remaining sufficiently coherent to revise the model while acting.
Predict
Use that organization to anticipate what may happen next and which actions remain available.
Remain
Maintain enough bodily and cognitive coherence to keep exploring while the model is being revised.
At ibiLab, we study the architecture of adaptive agency and how people remain oriented enough to act when familiar structures no longer provide a reliable guide.
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