hi edwin,
really appreciate your insights. yes different terminology: it took me a while to work past the word "agent" to the heart of what you are saying.
regarding being "embedded in" / borrowing / etc. the field of creative intelligence, i am reminded of the recent experiments to test if we are living in a simulation ("The Matrix"). that reminds me of two things: firstly, the film "Men in Black II", and secondly, some work on Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime where it was postulated that black holes event horizons are simply *dividing-lines* between universes.
each "closed universe" would therefore be on the *INSIDE* of any given black hole within *ANOTHER* universe.
thus, hilariously, the answer to the question "are we inside a simulation" could well - potentially falsely if the tests are not carried out properly - be answered YES by accidentally interacting with the universe outside of the closed-bubble of our black-hole event horizon.
regarding the "field of intelligence"... if it exists, it should be possible to (a) quantify it (b) test for its existence (c) put it to good use (d) etc. etc.
more later