Before revision: The great power in viewing a mind as a society of agents, as opposed to the consequence of some basic principle or some simple formal system, is that different agents can be based on different types of processes with different purposes, ways of representing knowledge, and methods for producing results.
After revision: The great power in viewing a mind as a society of agents, as opposed to the consequence of some basic primple formal system, is that different agents can be based on different types of processes with different purposes, ways of representing knowledge, and methods for producing results.