I might give this a read, but based on the abstract I am concerned that “has a perspective” is going to be one of those properties that’s so obvious that its presence can be left to human judgment, but that nonetheless contains all the complexity of the theory.
EDIT: Looks like my concerns were more or less unfounded. It’s not what I would call the standard usage of the term, and I don’t buy the conceptual-analysis-style justifications for why this makes sense as the definition of agent, but what gets presented is a pretty useful definition, at a fairly standard “things represented in models of the world” level of abstraction.
I usually just call these “free variables” by analogy to that term’s usage in mathematics/statistics, but “aether” seems good too since, if nothing else, when I say “free variable” to people who don’t know the jargon they just sort of roll over it whereas they’d have a much harder time doing that if I said “aether”.
I might give this a read, but based on the abstract I am concerned that “has a perspective” is going to be one of those properties that’s so obvious that its presence can be left to human judgment, but that nonetheless contains all the complexity of the theory.
I read it more as pointing towards something like embedded agency.
I might give this a read, but based on the abstract I am concerned that “has a perspective” is going to be one of those properties that’s so obvious that its presence can be left to human judgment, but that nonetheless contains all the complexity of the theory.
EDIT: Looks like my concerns were more or less unfounded. It’s not what I would call the standard usage of the term, and I don’t buy the conceptual-analysis-style justifications for why this makes sense as the definition of agent, but what gets presented is a pretty useful definition, at a fairly standard “things represented in models of the world” level of abstraction.
aether variables
I usually just call these “free variables” by analogy to that term’s usage in mathematics/statistics, but “aether” seems good too since, if nothing else, when I say “free variable” to people who don’t know the jargon they just sort of roll over it whereas they’d have a much harder time doing that if I said “aether”.
I read it more as pointing towards something like embedded agency.