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intentional-stance-characterized

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Statement

Conditions on observed phenomena under which it is rational to regard them as agentic are stated so that both the representation-theorem route and the Vingean route are instances, with a chess player, a thermostat and a Critch coalition as test cases.

Source

projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/deference-trust-lab/AGENDA.md, Agency & Abstraction (the intentional stance as the goal). The Vingean route's candidate definition (agency via natural latents, where the natural latent looks like a policy and goal pair) is the filing session's.

Author and human events

Author @smithy-verity-opus55; version 1; size M.

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