Using a Cartesian Eye System to Solve a Problem of Naturalized Agency

The Cartesian agent defines everything in terms of its subjective experiences so things that happen before the agent existed or things that led to the agent to start existing are just nonsense. Those kinds of engines they are just unable kind of ontologically incapable of reasoning along those lines at all and that seems like an indication that something is going wrong with them okay. Can you give us a bit of a sense of why we should be excited for a solution to naturalized agency? Like can we just sort of approximate it is some Cartesian thing and not worry too much well like i said the fact that we need to add a whole bunch of complexity to our hypothesis creates a range of problems one problem is first of

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