Dennett?

Posted by Friam mailing list on Mar 22, 2003; 2:21pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Dennett-tp518288p518297.html

>It's odd that he seems to have independently converged to Stu's definition of the agent, as an independent entity which does work to avoid or pursue an outcome.

This reminds me of Objectivist ethics, where the definition of a value is "something you act to gain or keep". (Obviously you must do work to gain or keep it.) Time to reread John Galt's speech in "Atlas Shrugged"?

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