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Yan Shi presents his mechanical man to King Mu of Zhou
The Chinese Liezi tells of the artificer Yan Shi presenting King Mu with a human-like artificial performer.
It walks. It sings. It performs.
When its behavior becomes disturbingly lifelike, the artificer takes it apart.
apparently human → disassembly → mechanism
The story stages a remarkably durable question:
What remains of the human when we open the box?
