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Autonomous Agents

• Braitenberg, Valentino. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. (For a pdf see https://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/crabbe/SI475/current/vehicles.pdf )
• Reynolds, Craig W. “Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters.” Proceedings of Game Developers Conference, 1999, https://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1999/gdc99steer.html .
• Animated speculative design for city traffic with autonomous cars (at 25'30''):
  Dunn, Anthony. “Not Here, Not Now.” Kyoto Design Lab, KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, April 1, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chBiMec7KtM&feature=youtu.be&t=1534.

Robots and Humans

• Mori, Masahiro, Karl F. MacDorman, and Norri Kageki. “The Uncanny Valley.” IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine 19, no. 2 (June 2012): 98–100. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2012.2192811.
• Cuthbert, Olivia. “Saudi Arabia Becomes First Country to Grant Citizenship to a Robot.” Arab News, October 25, 2017. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1183166/saudi-arabia.

Empathy with Robots

• Eliza, the rule-based psychoanalyst can in Apple OS directly called from the command line. Open the terminal, write emacs, then press enter. After Emacs has loded press shift+ esc. Type xdoctor, press return.
• "Empathy with robots"; how do you feel when Atlas, the robot gets hit by the human Boston Dynamics, Atlas or when the "dog" robot is kicked?: Boston Dynamics Dog robots

Philosophical Zombies (or p-Zombies)

Philosophical zombies are physical and behavioral duplicates of normal conscious humans, without consciousness. The conceivability argument against materialism runs roughly as follows: (1) Zombies are conceivable; (2) If zombies are conceivable, zombies are possible; (3) If zombies are possible, materialism is false; therefore (4) Materialism is false.
David Chalmers (https://philpapers.org/browse/zombies-and-the-conceivability-argument)

• Kirk, Robert. “Zombies.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Spring 2019. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2019. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/zombies/.
• Polger, Thomas. “Zombies.” Rome: Società Italiana Filosofia Analitica, n.d. http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/zombies.htm.

Studio

• A boid-class for an agent with steering behaviour as described in Reynold's paper

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