Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Field notes, Hex. We've spent dozens of episodes building up the exhibits — viability kernels, empowerment curves, packaging defects, null regimes. Today we step back and read the thesis those exhibits serve.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Agency & agents
• Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
• Format: Field notes
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: TH

Source anchors

• TH §5.3 Why these nulls matter for the thesis
• TH §1.4 Thesis: an agent is a theory object
• QT §9.1 Recap in one paragraph
• SB §9 Why the primitives are unavoidable (label: sec:meta-unavoidable)
• QT §2.1 The category mistake: inference versus causation