“Apparently, our minds can produce (copious quantities of) active autonomous agents as what might be understood analogously as sub-processes. These ‘agents’, due to their simplicity and focus, can accomplish tasks of sensing, learning, discovery, problem-solving, communication, and invention which are not only otherwise unthinkable, they seem impossible. The skill of producing, activating, operating and developing them is utilized by infants, and remains in the toolbox of the adult mind, but is rarely consciously understood or directed. When these processes are consciously directed, there is no way to even comprehend the new vistas of human potential they unlock.”

— a report from WS J12