Credo

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For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within, why may we not say that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the Artificer?

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T. Hobbes. LEVIATHAN or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiatical and Civil. London, 1651.


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