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I can't help but feel that this sentence pervasively redefines 'interesting things' as 'appears agent-caused'.
As curious agents ourselves, we're pre-tuned to find apparently-agent-caused things interesting. So, I don't think a redefinition necessarily took place.
This is sort of what I meant. I am leery of accidentally going in the reverse direction - so instead of "thing A is agent-caused -> pretuned to find agent-caused interesting -> thing A is interesting" we get "thing A is interesting -> pretuned to find agent-caused interesting -> thing A is agent-caused".
This is then a redefinition; I have folded agent-caused into "interesting" and made it a necessary condition.