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claim:the-relative-amount-of-energy-or-effort-used-in-an-intervention-compared-to-the-change-in-a-system-s-behavior-formalizes-the-distinction-between-purely-mechanical-control-and-high-level-agency

The relative amount of energy or effort used in an intervention compared to the change in a system's behavior formalizes the distinction between purely mechanical control and high-level agency.

Proposed formalization of the spectrum from mechanical to cognitive control via energy-efficiency of intervention

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Living Things Are Not (20th Century) Machines: Updating Mechanism Metaphors in Light of the Modern Science of Machine Behavior

(2021) · Joshua Bongard · Michael Levin

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Persuadability Continuum
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A spectrum from systems controllable only by physical intervention to systems controllable by rational argument; proposed as a continuous measure replacing binary life/machine distinction

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Design philosophy claim distinguishing pyvene's approach from prior libraries
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the ability to reach the same goal by different meansquote0.760
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Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
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