In general the Zande stoutly maintain that witches are conscious agents.

One such class of social cognition involves the understanding that others are conscious agents.

There's always a conscious agent that causes it to happen.

Each conscious agent, Fichte thinks, should retain their own 'sphere of freedom' in which they are free from outside forces.

The fruits, according to him, then, must be administered through the action of a conscious agent, namely, a supreme being (Ishvara).

Absurdly, the author also says, "Hopkins had been an unconscious rather than a conscious agent."

Throughout this book, I have emphasized that we must not think of genes as conscious, purposeful agents.

Here again the results of human activity are explained without recourse to conscious human agents or social contexts.

I am not saying that you are a conscious agent, only that you are a tool.

If one considers him or herself a conscious agent, then the quality of agency would naturally be intuited upon others.