用可验证框架区分代理与代理行为,定义了六鸟理论下的智能体标准。
To Throw a Stone with Six Birds: On Agents and Agenthood

- 基于六鸟理论构建可验证的代理框架,强调接口与约束的显式维护。
- 实验证明修复机制使对象性缺陷归零,两步以上协议提升赋能能力。
- 无需预设目标或意识,适合对智能体本质有严谨需求的研究者。
六鸟理论(SBT)将宏观物体视为诱导闭包而非原始实体。传统对代理性的讨论常混淆持久性(作为物体)与控制力(制造反事实差异),导致难以验证且易被伪造。本文在SBT框架内给出类型正确的代理性描述:理论生成具有显式接口和记账约束的层次;智能体是持续维护的理论对象,其可行接口策略能引导外部未来并保持自身可行性。我们通过四个可检查组件在有限受控系统中实现该契约:记账门限可行性、基于后继支持语义的最大不动点计算的鲁棒可行性核、以信道容量为代理的可行赋能,以及衡量粗粒度观察下对象性的幂等性缺陷的实证包装映射。在一个最小环形世界中,通过切换修复、协议同伦、身份阶段和操作符重写等开关,匹配控制消融实验揭示四类分离:单动作校准空置区显示零赋能且避免模型误设假阳性;启用修复使幂等性缺陷归零;协议仅在两步及以上时提升赋能;学习重写操作符单调提升中位赋能(从0.73增至1.34比特)。这些结果提供可哈希追踪的测试,无需声称目标、意识或生物有机体,即可分离代理性与代理行为,并配有可复现、可审计的成果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Six Birds Theory (SBT) treats macroscopic objects as induced closures rather than primitives. Empirical discussions of agency often conflate persistence (being an object) with control (making a counterfactual difference), which makes agency claims difficult to test and easy to spoof. We give a type-correct account of agency within SBT: a theory induces a layer with an explicit interface and ledgered constraints; an agent is a maintained theory object whose feasible interface policies can steer outside futures while remaining viable. We operationalize this contract in finite controlled systems using four checkable components: ledger-gated feasibility, a robust viability kernel computed as a greatest fixed point under successor-support semantics, feasible empowerment (channel capacity) as a proxy for difference-making, and an empirical packaging map whose idempotence defect quantifies objecthood under coarse observation. In a minimal ring-world with toggles for repair, protocol holonomy, identity staging, and operator rewriting, matched-control ablations yield four separations: calibrated null regimes with single actions show zero empowerment and block model-misspecification false positives; enabling repair collapses the idempotence defect; protocols increase empowerment only at horizons of two or more steps; and learning to rewrite operators monotonically increases median empowerment (0.73 to 1.34 bits). These results provide hash-traceable tests that separate agenthood from agency without making claims about goals, consciousness, or biological organisms, and they are accompanied by reproducible, audited artifacts.
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