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Can you give a link?

Frankly, don’t waste time trying to spot legitimate physics by kooks. Spend your time learning legitimate physics from reputable...

As has been pointed out, personal speculation is not permitted here. Nor is non-mainstream "research" published in a popular book...

Plenty of people claim to believe both, for whatever that's worth.

Which needs a human operator to do anything, right? So no, it would not be an agent. It doesn't do anything without being told to by a...

Autopilots in planes are examples of simple agents. And actually nowadays they're not even all that simple, they can do more than just...

For any system where it's computationally intractable to predict its behavior using physical laws, yes, if it can be modeled as an...

If it's useful in helping to understand what they do, sure. "Agent" is a model. It's a tool for human understanding. It's something we...

Yes, that would be the case. The general idea, that deviations from the idealized FLRW solutions might be enough to account for...

Unfortunately, as I've already pointed out, it's often confused with modeling antiparticles as particles with arrows in Feynman diagrams...

The best heuristic I can give is that anything that can do something, even something very simple, on its own, without being told what to...

From the link I gave above, note that the first four classes of intelligent agents are pretty similar, each one having an add-on over...

Which is not at all what I did. Please don't concoct straw men. I went out of my way to emphasize how different the agency of humans is...

A very, very limited form of it, yes. The engineer isn't there telling the thermostat when to turn your heat or A/C on and off. The...

Since they don't send their roots everywhere, they clearly are doing some kind of "deciding" about where to send them and where not. So...