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WiM051 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 4 | Psychotechnologies and Distributed Cognition

The "What is Money?" Show

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Agent in Arena - The Basic Idea of Agency

I prefer agent in arena because a agency is a term that can more readily be extended to biological organisms where, anyways, it's a technical thingthat we don't really need to get into. And an you can assign agency even, i guess, to non biological things too. So for me, not everybody would agree with this, you know, it's science. Butdifferentiating et, the differentiating a criterion of a agent is the capacity to seek. In sombasha, and you can clearly see seeking behavior in a pyramesia, when you can’t seeseeking behavior in a tornado or a hurricane, right?

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