The Agent is the term I use to designate the state of sound mindedness when we are aware of our biases and engaged in training to respond to the awareness of those biases in a more constructive, autonomous manner.
People fluctuate in their degree of agency depending on multiple factors: emotional state, awareness of cognitive and social biases, influence of substances, personality traits, critical thinking, awareness of cognitive distortions and commitment to training the knowledge, application and skill of these properties in present situations.
In the social, the agent is the person who is aware of the context and how others are placed within it. The agent is the one who is mindful and able to act within the moment for the benefit of the group or an individual who cannot defend themselves.
Levels of Agency
1. Non-Agent
Due to factors that are out of the individuals control, they lose the capacity to be aware of and make moral and social decisions. The are not educated, have habits of and are participating in creating psychological or social damage to others. The individual may have brain damage, a developmental disorder or some other psychological condition like a personality disorder or schizophrenia that restrict their ability to function within the personal and social context. NA's can still be members of the philosophy culture, however they would fall under the care taking of other agents.
Every agent has the capacity to become a non-agent, via brain damage or the oneself of some psychological disorder, or a temporary NA due to emotional state, substance abuse or intoxication, or other states that can reduce one's ability to make autonomous decisions and respond to psychological or social biases.
2. Level 1 Agent
A first level agent is aware of the psychological and social factors that reduce their ability to make a consensual, autonomous choice and are committed to training themselves to be aware of these psychological and social biases to respond differently. The level one agent would be participating in training at least once a week to keep their skills sharp.
It is important to have one monitored by others to make sure that we account for any weaknesses that we are unaware of. If an individual is doing psycho-social research on their own without any group learning, they will be missing out on a significant portion of skills quality check.
3. Level 2 Agent
A level two agent is able to coordinate and teach Level one agents. The L2 agent has an awareness of the research in the area and has trained responses in their life and has developed their own personal adaptations to the information i have resented in these posts without changing the intended use of the content.
The L2 agent is actively teaching classes once a week and taking responsibility for coordinating and hosting events. L2 agents are cultural leaders and participate in the Philosophy Society as such, see Social Phalanx Tool.
Agents and Non-Members
The majority of society is currently a non-member of the social philosophical movement that I am creating. Therefore, agents have to be sensitive to the ignorance many people have of social science and philosophy. Agents must take the role of educators and be willing to go against group interests if the group is acting unethical, see Pro-Social Token Tool.
The goal of the Agent is to represent the philosophy culture in a way that people of all socioeconomic and religious backgrounds want to participate in its cultural practices. The agent has a duty to help integrate non-members into becoming members of the group.
AJ 18.2.18, 14.3.18, 27.3.20
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