#animal machine

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There can't be anything between

It's automatic over me

Shoot like an animal machine

Straight from the colors of her dream

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According to some reports, René Descartes (1596–1650) hurled a cat out of a window in order to demonstrate the absence of conscious awareness in non-human animals; its terrified screams were mechanical reactions, he concluded. Descartes also performed experiments on dogs, whipping one while a violin was being played in order to see whether the sound of a violin would later frighten the animal, which it did.

Descartes coined the expression, ‘I think, therefore I am.’ The implication was that human beings are essentially minds and only accidentally physical organisms. He wanted his philosophy to be based on methodical doubt. It did not occur to him to doubt the Christian orthodoxy that denied animals souls, which he renewed in his rationalist philosophy. Descartes believed his experiments proved non-human animals were insensate machines: what they actually showed is that humans can be more unthinking than any other animal.

John N. Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

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♫ (that sounds like a fun ask game!)

From the game HERE

“I’m looking over the deep end, time ain’t a reason for defense ”

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blissfully autonomous

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René Descartes (1596-1650)

Doctrines et vies des philosophes illustres - René Descartes (1596-1650) #Philosophie #MardiCestPhilosophie #Philosophes #Biographie #Doctrine #Descartes #Cogito #Méthode #Méditations #Métaphysique

Doctrines et vies des philosophes illustres Portrait de René Descartes, tenant un livre où est écrit “Mundus est fabula” [“Le Monde est une fable”], Jan Baptist Weenix – Source : Wikipedia Éléments biographiques René Descartes naît le 31 mars 1596 à La Haye, village situé en Touraine, qui a pris le nom de Descartes en 1967, en hommage au philosophe. Il est le troisième enfant d’une famille de…

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