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Philip Ball - How Life Works

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Exploring Agency and Consciousness

This chapter examines the concepts of agency and consciousness, questioning traditional views that link agency exclusively with human awareness. It emphasizes the importance of metaphors in understanding biological and artificial systems, while asserting that both simple and complex entities can exhibit goal-directed behavior.

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