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Rene Descartes, Discourse On Method - Human, Animal, Machine - Sadler's Lectures
Sadler's Lectures
English - September 24, 2022 18:16 - 16 minutes - 24.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on his discussion in part 5 of whether a machine could be developed that would pass for a human being. In the process of examining this question, he outlines how animals and machines differ from rational human beings. This involves the capacity to use language in a distinctly human manner.
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