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Since the French Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century there has been a growing belief that people are machines. In 1745, the French physician and philosopher La Mettrie published The Natural History of the Soul. This brought him such official censure that he exiled himself in Holland. Two years later he published L’Homme Machine (Man A Machine), whose materialistic contents aroused even the liberal-minded Dutch to angry protest. Two hundred years ago, then, the belief that people are machines was bold and dangerous. Today it is so deeply rooted in our culture that we find it difficult to imagine what else people might be.
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Dartnall, T. (1994). Introduction: On Having a Mind of Your Own. In: Dartnall, T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Creativity. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0793-0_2
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