Looking for papers on general formalizations of "agency"

·LessWrong··

Hi!Recently, I immersed myself in researching the possibility of a general formal definition of "agency".More specifically, I’m interested in formalizations that could support an operational definition of agency across domains. I’m looking for something that captures what is common between entities that intuitively seem agentic to us in very different parts of the world, and that could, at least in principle, let us detect such entities automatically in real systems.So far, many definitions of a...

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