Coalitions exemplify the fundamental challenge of inducing coherent group behavior from individualistic agent structures. The Collective-Agents (CA) framework rejects the distinction between individual and group deliberation, on a functional basis. Acknowledging that a group does not think using a brain, and an individual brain is not divisible into multiple minds, the CA framework nevertheless seeks an analogous correspondence between the intentional attitudes of individuals and groups alike. Resulting agents are ...
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