baumhaus.digital/Studium Generale/Prolegomena to Educatio Digitale/Session 4 :: Between Renaissance and Age of Reason/Mechanism

"I should like you to consider that these functions (including passion, memory, and imagination) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine’s organs every bit as naturally as the movements of a clock or other automaton follow from the arrangement of its counter-weights and wheels." (Descartes, Treatise on Man, p.108)