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A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)

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The Importance of Agency in Evolution

I think repeatedly the evidence suggests that there isn't necessarily going to be evolutionary progression towards, for example, greater complexity or greater agential sort of behavior. As long as the system remains viable, it doesn't need to become anything different. If and when the world does change, it has to act back or it has to update its model. I don't think agency would necessarily predict progress or complexity.

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