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# Agent
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**Status:** provisional
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**See also:** H9, RQ8
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## Working definition
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An **Agent** is an artificial entity or component primarily derived from functional
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purpose.
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Defining question: **What should this entity be able to do?**
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Quality criteria tend toward competence, reliability, autonomy, scope discipline,
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adaptability, and outcomes.
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## Notes for research
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- An Agent may be merely a functional component of another artificial Being.
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- An Agent may itself become a Being if it develops persistent identity, continuity,
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relationships, character, and recognition.
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- Preliminary view: Agent is a provenance/construction descriptor, not a mutually
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exclusive ontological class.
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