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Persuasion Glossary

Actors & Agents

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Meet the key players that drive our systems. From human actors using natural language to conversational agents handling tasks like transmitting, receiving, and reasoning, this section defines the roles and responsibilities that make everything tick.

Actors
Classes of Human Persons or Abstract Entities that contain Conversational Agents.
Human Persons
Actors that use Natural Language to derive Semantic meaning.
Conversational Agents
Abstract sub-classes of Actors that implement one of three conversational sub-processes: Transmission, Reception, or Cognition.
Transmitter Agents
Conversational Agents capable of passing Information and Asserting Statements to Receiver Agents.
Receiver Agents
Conversational Agents capable of Perceiving Information from Transmitter Agents.
Cognitive Agents
Conversational Agents capable of Cognition, Reasoning, Decision-making, and Metacognition.
Metacognitive Agents
A subclass of Cognitive Agents distinctly capable of either Active Deliberation or Learned Intuition.