[ExI] agency-based personal identity

[gts]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:59:24 -0400, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net>  
wrote:

> Consider a newborn infant.  It functions on its own behalf, at least
> enough to find and suck on a nipple, but it yet lacks a model of
> itself as a self.
>
> Is there agency?
> It certainly acts on its environment relative to its values so there
> is agency, not yet in its own mind, but assigned in the minds of other
> observers.

Are you suggesting here that the newborn has no intrinsic agency? That its  
agency exists only in the minds of observers?

-gts