Agents must be linked to one another by a suitable network of interconnections. The control structure is critical. This is exactly analogous to a computer program. This has implications for how we are to understand large and complex things. "First, we must know how each separate part works. Second, we must know how each part interacts with those to which it is connected. And third, we have to understand how all these local interactions combine to accomplish what that system does -- as seen from the outside."
Minsky sees a link between agents, agencies and societies and nerve cells. Where will he go with this??
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