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Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach on The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Is There a Difference Between a Controller and an Agent?
The degree of flexible problem solving that you can expect out of those two systems is incredibly different. So the way in which you use the word competency could be treated as the capacity of a system for adaptive control. It's difficult to say, I mean, when do we pursue goals? That sometimes we just vaguely hungry are moving towards the kitchen because we hope that something will deal with this vague tendency in our behavior. We could also say we have the goal of finding food. But that is a rationalization that is maybe stretching things sometimes. Sometimes a better distinction for me is going from a simple controller to an agent. The minimal definition of agent that I found is a controller for future states
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