That being said, I think it’s a bit weird to have “habitual subagents”, since the word “agent” seems to imply some amount of goal-directedness.
Yeah, I did drift towards more generic terms like “subsystems” or “parts” later in the series for this reason, and might have changed the name of the sequence if only I’d managed to think of something better. (Terms like “subagents” and “multi-agent models of mind” still gesture away from rational agent models in a way that more generic terms like “subsystems” don’t.)
No worries!
Yeah, I did drift towards more generic terms like “subsystems” or “parts” later in the series for this reason, and might have changed the name of the sequence if only I’d managed to think of something better. (Terms like “subagents” and “multi-agent models of mind” still gesture away from rational agent models in a way that more generic terms like “subsystems” don’t.)