The automaton chronicles
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Cave, Stephen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-0874
Dihal, KSM
Abstract
The French philosopher René Descartes was reputedly fond of automata: they inspired his view that living things were biological machines that function like clockwork. Less known is a strange story that began to circulate after the philosopher’s death in 1650. This centred on Descartes’s daughter Francine, who died of scarlet fever at the age of five.
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artificial intelligence, history of science, narratives, automata, robots
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Nature
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1476-4687
1476-4687
1476-4687
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559
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Springer Nature
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a Leverhulme Trust Research Centre Grant awarded to the Leverhulme
Centre for the Future of Intelligence