Following Bratman, I distinguish between the Cummins or component-function of the planning capacity (its role as a component of larger forms of practical organizations) and its Wright or existence-function – the planning capacity's effect that explains its existence. I agree with Bratman that these functions are distinct. The planning capacity's role within larger practical organizations need not explain its origin. But I argue that the distinction is less stark for future-oriented existence-functions, which concern the future persistence and stability of the capacity. In mature practical organizations, component-functions usually give rise to matching future-oriented existence-functions, given that pressures for the persistence of practical organizations transfer to their components (such as the planning capacity) because of their component-functions. But in the special case of individual temporally extended agency, there is an even stronger alignment of functions. The planning capacity and individual temporally extended agency are part of an inextricable package. The capacity is not just a distinct component. This entails that, within individual agency, the two functions merge and the planning capacity is the primary rather than the derivative target of pressures of persistence, care, and value. Or so I speculatively conjecture.

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规划机构的现状与未来的存续

继布拉特曼之后，我区分了康明斯或规划能力的组成功能（其作为更大形式的实际组织的组成部分的作用）和赖特或存在功能——规划能力解释其存在的效果。我同意布拉特曼的观点，即这些功能是不同的。规划能力在较大的实际组织中的作用无需解释其起源。但我认为，对于面向未来的存在功能来说，这种区别并不那么明显，它涉及能力的未来持久性和稳定性。在成熟的实践组织中，组件功能通常会产生相匹配的面向未来的存在功能，因为实践组织的持久性压力会因其组件功能而转移到其组件（如计划能力）。但在个人临时延长代理的特殊情况下，职能之间的一致性甚至更强。规划能力和个人临时延长的机构是一个不可分割的整体的一部分。容量不仅仅是一个独特的组成部分。这意味着，在个体机构内，两种职能合并，规划能力是主要目标，而不是持久性、关怀和价值压力的衍生目标。或者说我推测是这样的。