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Where is the boundary between an agent and its environment drawn?

  • A.Wherever the designer finds it most useful to draw it
  • B.At the physical surface of the agent's body
  • C.At the point where the agent's program ends
  • D.At the limit of what the agent's sensors can detect

Answer: A

The boundary is a modelling decision: a robot's arm can be treated as part of the agent or as part of the environment it must control, and each choice makes different problems easier. Physical surfaces, program boundaries and sensor ranges are conventional places to draw it but none is required. Recognising a modelling choice as a choice, rather than as a fact about the world, is what allows it to be made deliberately.

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