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A.13:8 - Rationale

The core answers which System qualifies for a local kind and holds its assignment. The profile answers separate questions about that holder’s capabilities. A Grade summarizes the profile for communication; it does not replace the detailed characteristic results needed by an assurance use.

The following research contributions inform different agency questions:

  • Levin’s scale-free cognition paper (2019) proposes an account of individuality and goal-directedness while allowing more than one useful agent definition.
  • Levin’s TAME proposal (2022) describes a rich space of capacities rather than one privileged scalar of cognition. It motivates distinguishing capabilities instead of treating “agent” as a sufficient comparison.
  • Friston et al.’s active-inference account of agency (2013) is a historical anchor concerning prior beliefs about action in an embodied account. That question differs from defining A.13’s five measurement scales or Grade mapping.