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Default agent: an automatic cognitive agent that was

Default agent: an automatic cognitive agent that was installed without conscious input through repetition, social conditioning, cultural norms, or childhood experiences, operating through environmental cues without requiring conscious deliberation

Why This Is a Definition

This definition precisely establishes 'default agent' by naming the term, categorizing it as a type of cognitive agent, and distinguishing it through its mechanism of installation (without conscious input) and operational characteristics (automatic, context-triggered). It's positioned as the antithesis of designed agents and is central to the lesson's core concept.

Source Lessons

L-0402

You already have agents you did not design

Your habits and automatic reactions are agents that were installed without your conscious input.

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AxiomOpen-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik)AxiomExtended Cognition Thesis AxiomAutomatic Narrative Generation Precedes Conscious Evaluation AxiomDirected Attention as Depletable Resource AxiomPerception as Predictive Construction AxiomHindsight Bias and Calibration Necessity AxiomHabits as Context-Response Associations AxiomExpertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking AxiomAutomatic Fusion of Observation and Interpretation AxiomUltradian and Circadian Cognitive Rhythms AxiomNeural Plasticity Enables Lifelong Automatic Learning AxiomPatterns Exist in Hierarchical Logical Levels AxiomEmotional Hijacking of Judgment AxiomPerceptual Plasticity Through Training AxiomEmotion as Systematic Cognitive Modulator AxiomNatural Frequency Format Advantage AxiomCultural Transmission Through Shared Intentionality AxiomBrain as Hierarchical Prediction Machine AxiomConsciousness Requires Global Neural Integration AxiomCognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems AxiomMental States Are Cognitively Imputable AxiomLooping Effects of Human Classification AxiomHierarchical Chunking Expands Capacity AxiomConstrual Level Effects on Perception AxiomFlexible Context-Dependent Categorization AxiomSimple decision rules using less information can outperform AxiomYou necessarily trust your own cognitive faculties as a AxiomReference class forecasting (using base rates from similar AxiomWhen a habit forms, neural activity spikes at the cue and AxiomHuman cognition operates through schemas — structured

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