Experiencing Mandates: Towards A Hybrid Account

In this paper I focus on a subset of experiences in which action-properties are presented-namely, those in which objects in our perceptual surroundings or environment 'demand' that certain actions be carried out, as experienced mandates (EMs). The critical part of the paper argues that a complex contents view, which builds all of the distinctiveness of such experiences into their perceptual content, is unsatisfactory. As an alternative, I argue that EMs involve bodily potentiation, which is best understood in terms of felt action readiness. I then outline a hybrid account, which combines content-based features of EMs with action-readiness.