AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 8h ago5/10
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A Matter of Time: Towards a General Theory of Agency
A new arXiv paper proposes a unified theoretical framework for understanding agency by grounding it in temporal organization, relational biology, and process ontology. The framework distinguishes between autonomy, goal-directedness, agency, and open-endedness through formalized timescale analysis, with implications for understanding biological systems, synthetic life, and artificial intelligence.