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[Cross-posted from philosophymodsquad.] In preparing to talk about Descartes on machines and animals and human beings the other day, I set out looking for information about seventeenth-century automata. One really interesting thing is Jessica Riskin’s article “Machines in the Garden” in Republics of Letters. This has a lot of information about “lifelike machines” of two sorts: …

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