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The Talking Heads Experiment, conducted in the years 1999-2001, was the first large-scale experiment in which open populations of situated embodied agents created for the first time ever a new shared vocabulary by playing language games about real world scenes in front of them. The agents could teleport to different physical sites in the world through the Internet. Sites, in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Tokyo, London, Cambridge and several other locations were linked into the network. Humans could interact with the robotic agents either on site or remotely through the Internet and thus influence the evolving ontologies and languages of the artificial agents. The present book describes in detail the motivation, the cognitive mechanisms used by the agents, the various installations of the Talking Heads, the experimental results that were obtained, and the interaction with humans. It also provides a perspective on what happened in the field after these initial groundbreaking experiments. The book is invaluable reading for anyone interested in the history of agent-based models of language evolution and the future of Artificial Intelligence.

Information technology. --- Information society. --- shared vocabulary --- situated embodied agents --- agent-based models --- future of artificial intelligence --- human-robotic interaction --- language in robotics --- language evolution --- language games --- Lexicon --- Paris --- Semiotics --- Syntax

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This book develops a theory of political animal voices in three steps. The first part focuses on language. Drawing from recent studies in biology and ethology, it challenges a view of language as exclusively human. It also investigates the relation between developing common languages and creating common interspecies worlds. The second part of this book focuses on interspecies politics; it challenges an anthropocentric demarcation of the political and develops an alternative, which takes into account non-human animal agency and interspecies political relations. The third and final part of the book draws on the insights about language and politics developed in the first two parts to investigate how existing political practices and institutions can be extended to incorporate non-human animal political voices, and to explore new ways of interacting with other animals politically.

Animals --- Human-animal communication. --- Social aspects. --- Darwin. --- Derrida. --- Donna Haraway. --- Habermas. --- Merleau-Ponty. --- Romanian stray dogs. --- Wittgenstein. --- Zoopolis. --- animal activism. --- animal agency. --- animal citizenship. --- animal deliberation. --- animal democracy. --- animal language research. --- animal languages. --- animal liberation. --- animal philosophy. --- animal politics. --- animal research. --- animal resistance. --- animal rights. --- animal sovereignty. --- biopolitics. --- civil disobedience. --- conflict. --- deconstruction. --- dog philosophy. --- ethology. --- goose politics. --- interspecies communication. --- interspecies communities. --- interspecies community. --- interspecies deliberation. --- interspecies worlds. --- language games. --- logos. --- multispecies dialogues. --- phenomenology. --- political animal voices. --- political change. --- political communication. --- political participation. --- political turn. --- political voice. --- sentience. --- systemic turn. --- worm justice. --- worm politics. --- worm power.