Being One, Being Many

Christian Kroos; Damith Herath

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_10

Being One, Being Many

Christian Kroos, Damith Herath

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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 ‘The Swarming Heads’ by Stelarc.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Robots and Art - Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis
Editors	Damith Herath, Christian Kroos, Stelarc
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	191-209
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811003219
ISBN (Print)	9789811003196
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_10
Publication status	Published - 2016

Publication series

Name	Cognitive Science and Technology
Publisher	Springer Singapore
ISSN (Print)	2195-3988

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Kroos, C., & Herath, D. (2016). Being One, Being Many. In D. Herath, C. Kroos, & S. (Eds.), Robots and Art - Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis (pp. 191-209). (Cognitive Science and Technology). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_10

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