Discussing Agent Power-Of by Experimentation

Does an agent mental space constitute the environment for a second agent? Can we use a second agent to percept and manipulate the individual entities that compose a certain agent? What advantages can be achieved? And with what costs? This paper covers a research path on the advantage side questions. We did again an experiment proposed by Steels (Mars explorer subsumption agent): Its list of reaction pairs is initially shuffled and a meta-agent can promote or demote those pairs in response to individual-power local variations. After a while the observed list of reaction pairs (and the implied agent behavior) is very close to the original and intended design