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EVEN ANIMALS ARE MACHINES
When the great French philosopher, René Descartes, died in 1650, a strange rumour took hold.
Fact: in 1649, Descartes was travelling by ship across the North Sea to start a new life in Sweden. Rumour: one night, the crew discovered a bizarre contraption in his cabin. It was a mechanical replica of Francine, the philosopher’s dead daughter. Fearing black magic, they tossed the android overboard, plunging Descartes into despair.
That’s where this tale begins: at the birth of a legend.
Set at the mythical birth of modernity, Even Animals Are Machines is a Baroque-punk gem that explores the limits of intelligence and the outer limits of technology.
It’s about the struggle between reason and passion—and about robots, seventeenth-century style.
