@inbook{d103c9e76d10406f94ccf65fc4b88173,
title = "Being One, Being Many",
abstract = "If the current development of robotics indicates its future, we will be soon able to create robots that are exactly identical, intentional agents — at least as far as their software is concerned. This raises questions about identity as sameness and identity in the sense of individuality/subjectivity. How will we treat a robotic agent that is precisely the same as multiple others once it left its inanimate appearance behind and by its intentionality claims to be individual and subjective? In this chapter we show how these issues emerged in the implementation of the artwork {\textquoteleft}The Swarming Heads{\textquoteright} by Stelarc.",
keywords = "Identical agent, Intentional agent, Internalist view, Kinect sensor, Robot base",
author = "Christian Kroos and Damith Herath",
note = "Funding Information: In 2012 the Thinking Head project came to an end. The multi-university, interdisciplinary research undertaking funded by the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council had the aim to develop a sophisticated embodied conversational agent, a {\textquoteleft}talking head{\textquoteright} that would venture beyond uttering only pre-defined phrases and would pass for being intelligent. The project{\textquoteright}s starting point was the Prosthetic Head by Australian performance artist Stelarc, a convincing virtual 3D representation of the artist, created using a laser scan of the artist{\textquoteright}s head and animated using computer graphics. People were able to interact with the Prosthetic Head by submitting questions or comments through a computer keyboard. A modified version of the A.L.I.C.E. chatbot [7], a widely used conversational artificial intelligence computer program, generated the responses. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789811003196",
series = "Cognitive Science and Technology",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "191--209",
editor = "Damith Herath and Christian Kroos and Stelarc",
booktitle = "Cognitive Science and Technology",
address = "Netherlands",
}