How "artificial" must a body be to be considered a robot? (SPOILERS FOR ELDEN RING)

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How "artificial" must a body be to be considered a robot? (SPOILERS FOR ELDEN RING)

Post by mister_minations » Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:09 pm

During Ranni's questline, you eventually discover that her real body is actually dead, and she's been using a puppet of herself to speak to you. The puppet, which seems to be a mess of wires and twine inside some sort of porcelain shell, is able to channel lunar sorceries and cast curses, but it still requires Ranni's direct control to move and has no agency of its own. By the end of it all, the Tarnished ends up moving Ranni's spirit into a series of increasingly tiny dolls, eventually ending with a marriage ring and the debatably evil/good ending where you allow aliens to invade the Lands Between.

(This is not getting into the other headache of the questline, which implies that there's at least one lunatic old man out there making artificial bodies and shoving random souls in them to see what happens)

Is this a true robot, or is it just a case of possession? I know for a fact that there's another character who can do something similar with what is probably an organic puppet body (see the above line), which kind of muddies the terminology. Bringing up the idea of transferring minds between artificially produced human bodies is always ugly when trying to determine the precise terminology of these things.

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