Right, the Selfish Gene is one of the best books I ever read. There's also a paper I recently came across (https://warpcast.com/breck/0xea2e1a35 https://warpca

Right, the Selfish Gene is one of the best books I ever read. There's also a paper I recently came across (https://warpcast.com/breck/0xea2e1a35 https://warpcast.com/breck/0xea2e1a35) which talks about how causation is a two way street: low level nodes cause things in higher level nodes, but higher level nodes in turn cause things in lower level nodes. In other words, just because genes have really been the drivers and our bodies just the vehicles, doesn't mean that's not cyclical (sometimes it could cycle to be the higher level ideas driving the evolution in lower level agents). > I suspect that Minsky's agents are the individual firing patterns. I like this idea. The biggest open question in my mind in regards to Minsky still is exactly on this: what physically is an agent? How many are there? My margin of error here is wild -- like 10 orders of magnitude.