Why You Can't Reverse-Engineer Human Beings: The Metaphysics of the Soul | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
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The dream of fabricating a humanoid being goes way back in jewish folklore. Pneumatic and mechanical automata were imagined and sometimes even constructed in ancient cultures including egypt, india and china. In the nineteenth century we got the corpse creature of mary shelley's frankenstein and the child puppet of carlo callode's pinochio. Twentieth century electronics brought us robotics and cibernetics, and literature full of increasingly human like marvels of engineering,. sensing danger.
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