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Agent and Environment: One System

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State

An agent and its environment form one system: the environment delivers stimuli, the agent delivers actions back.

Show

A robot vacuum: bumps and battery level in; turns and docking out; the living room — furniture, dust, sleeping cat — is the other half.

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Competence belongs to the pair: the same vacuum thrives in one home, fails in a toy-strewn one.