200 Years of Frankenstein
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The Vitalist Controversy
Two nights before mary godwin told the story of frankenstein, shelley and burnab were discussing exactly that. The vitalist controversy was about where does the original spark of life come from? And it was the richard dawkins controversy of its day. In the eighteenth century, in he enlightenment, there's a lot of discussion about awe, just off machines. You know, was god a sort of clockmaker who set the machine in moth? Were meat puppets?
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