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   "text": "The computative agent differs structurally from both homo economicus and the bounded-rationality agent because its alternative set is not fixed but generated through computation, making the alternative set endogenous to the agent's own activity.",
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   "text": "Every generation, evaluation, and verification cycle updates the computative agent's internal model, which modifies the generation function available in later cycles; this endogeneity of decision capacity to history has no analog in the Neoclassical agent.",
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   "text": "A computative agent is formally a tuple (C, O, M, G, R) of computational resources, objective function, domain model, generation function, and a non-transferable reputation tracking verified generative performance.",
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