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Notable that the people who saw the first automatons argued whether they were alive.
by 8bitsrule 3y ago
Notable that the people who saw the first automatons argued whether they were alive.
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- int_19h 3y agoPeople also argued that animals are mere automatons, that all their observable behavior is basically scripted, and that humans shouldn't empathize with them on those grounds. That's how vivisection etc used to be justified since at least Descartes.