I'm fascinated by the term agency as it better describes what many mean when they claim to want freedom. And I struggle to translate it to German or Spanish.
Is it really agency when you don't act on it? If you're very anxious, you might still be low agency.
That was the key takeaway from a book I just read on consciousness. There are two independent axes - consciousness and intelligence. While artificial intelligence is well along the intelligence scale, there is absolutely no evidence of any consciousness, or subjective experience, which we humans have.
Freedom is really downstream from your agency. After much reading, I think I’ve put my finger on the endgame of the digital platforms- it’s to capture your agency. First, it was all about ads, but has become more insidious and subtle, by shaping your digital reality / subjective experience to meet their end.
