As curious agents ourselves, we’re pre-tuned to find apparently-agent-caused things interesting. So, I don’t think a redefinition necessarily took place.
pre-tuned to find apparently-agent-caused things interesting
This is sort of what I meant. I am leery of accidentally going in the reverse direction—so instead of “thing A is agent-caused → pretuned to find agent-caused interesting → thing A is interesting” we get “thing A is interesting → pretuned to find agent-caused interesting → thing A is agent-caused”.
This is then a redefinition; I have folded agent-caused into “interesting” and made it a necessary condition.
As curious agents ourselves, we’re pre-tuned to find apparently-agent-caused things interesting. So, I don’t think a redefinition necessarily took place.
This is sort of what I meant. I am leery of accidentally going in the reverse direction—so instead of “thing A is agent-caused → pretuned to find agent-caused interesting → thing A is interesting” we get “thing A is interesting → pretuned to find agent-caused interesting → thing A is agent-caused”.
This is then a redefinition; I have folded agent-caused into “interesting” and made it a necessary condition.