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Agency or Agenticness is the property of effectively acting with an environment to achieve one's goals. A key property of agents is that the more agentic a being is, the more you can predict its actions from its goals since it'sits actions will be whatever will maximize the chances of achieving its goals. Agency has sometimes been contrasted with sphexishness, the blind execution of cached algorithms without regard for effectiveness.
One might lack agency for internal reasons, e.g., one is a rock which has no goals of ability to act on them, or for external reasons, e.g. being a child who is granted no freedom to act as they choose.
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Agency is the ability to take actions which one's beliefs indicate would lead to the accomplishment of one's goals.
Humans seem to have low levels of agency, rarely ensuring accurate beliefs, rarely thinking about problems (as opposed to relying on cached answers), and rarely doing things other than what they happened to do in the past.