"More" has many different meanings, and each involves different agencies. Minsky provides alternative agencies for other kinds of conservation problems. "You might complain that even if we needed these hordes of lower-level agencies to make comparisons, this system has too many middle-level managers. But those mountains of bureaucracy are more than worth their cost. Each higher-level agent embodies a form of `higher-order' knowledge that helps us organize ourselves by telling us when and how to use the things we know. Without a many layered management, we couldn't use the knowledge in our low-level agencies; they'd all keep getting in one another's way."
Q: Does every distinction in meaning reflect a distinction in agencies?
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