Sublime Dreams of Living Machines General Engineering Enter the secret lives of

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Sublime Dreams of Living Machines General Engineering Enter the secret lives ofFrom the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton better known today as the robot has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human as machine and the human as fundamentally different from machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic