QuoteQuest“I should like you to consider that these functions (including passion, memory, and imagination) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine’s organs every bit as naturally as the movements of a clock or other automaton follow from the arrangement of its counter-weights and wheels.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: René Descartes
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Descartes, Rene, L'Homme (The Treatise on Man) (1662) p. 108
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Descartes, René. (n.d.). Wikiquote: René Descartes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/René_Descartes
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