They were stored as values in a huge array. I fail, however, to see how that causes them to be distinguished from "agents"? Surely they still fulfil the propert

They were stored as values in a huge array. I fail, however, to see how that causes them to be distinguished from "agents"? Surely they still fulfil the properties required to be "agents" in an abstract sense? They gather information about their environment (the positions of other agents), deliberate (work out where to move to next), and then act (change their position). That process is entirely abstracted from the storage method of the agent data itself!