And then you realize that all that advancement and cultural structure of western society is basically the result of thousands of years of just this: elites engaging in the mass social engineering of their subjects, which by submitting to this engineering become their agents.
There is very little actual agency in the systems of social organization. And the universe is not governed by moral forces. Such forces don't exist. Reality is entirely physical.
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My definition of "agency" comes from HCI, not philosophy. It can be measured via information theory to a certain extent. An other way of putting it: How much processing do we want in the individual agents to happen, and how desirable are emergent properties.
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Btw. regarding your previous question "Which civilizations do you have in mind? if i have to boil it down: a much more psychedelic one, where the economy is renewable, circular & ok with 0 growth, education more important than profits, and science and arts have replace labour.
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