
173 - Perpetual Motion
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The Mechanical Turk and Perpetual Motion
In this chapter, they discuss the concept of the mechanical Turk, a chess-playing machine from the 1800s that was actually operated by a hidden human chess player. They ponder the idea of building a machine that could be powered by winding it up to perform complex tasks like playing chess. They then transition to discussing perpetual motion and how it depends on defining the system.
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