If not even humans satisfy your definition of agent (which was, at least a couple comments ago, a tool possessing “real world intentionality”), then why is your version of the tool/agent distinction worthwhile?
My impression is that the tool/agent distinction is really about whether we use the social-modeling parts of our brain. It’s a question not about the world as much as about what’s a fruitful outlook. Modeling humans as humans works well—we are wired for this. Anthropomorphizing the desires of software or robots is only sometimes useful.
If not even humans satisfy your definition of agent (which was, at least a couple comments ago, a tool possessing “real world intentionality”), then why is your version of the tool/agent distinction worthwhile?
My impression is that the tool/agent distinction is really about whether we use the social-modeling parts of our brain. It’s a question not about the world as much as about what’s a fruitful outlook. Modeling humans as humans works well—we are wired for this. Anthropomorphizing the desires of software or robots is only sometimes useful.