Agential layering

The capacity humans have to generate and deploy a temporary agency, nested inside their primary agency, with its own particular ends and modes of practicality.

This can be done fractally and can be used for ludic purposes, like game playing, or survival purposes, like adapting to a traumatic situation.

Date

March 6, 2023

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Neuroticism Behavioral rigidity and inflexibility. A consequence of excessive agential layering. To be expected as each agent is an emulation being runran by

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