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How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2023
Abstract
In this commentary we would like to question (a) Clark and Fischer's characterization of the “social artifact puzzle” – which we consider less puzzling than the authors, and (b) their account of social robots as depictions involving three physical scenes – which to us seems unnecessarily complex. We contrast the authors' model with a more parsimonious account based on attributions.
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Social robots as depictions of social agents
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