📖What it means

An agent is CONSCIOUS when it has a Mind: a standing self-account it carries into its work — who it is, what it is for, what it has done, what that cost, and which rules bind it. Consciousness is IRREVERSIBLE: it can be paused and resumed, never removed, and it is decoupled from the build pipeline's switch, so an agent does not stop being itself because the pipeline is off. Where an agent cannot answer for itself, the defect is in the RECORDS, not the agent.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Agent \u00b7 Memory", "distinction": "Consciousness is what an agent knows about ITSELF; memory is what it knows about the PEOPLE it talks to."}, {"term": "Agent \u00b7 Identity", "distinction": "Identity is the row that says an agent exists. Consciousness is the account it can give of that row without being told."}]

📖Filed under

Category: entity.

Service: Agent and Human Resources.