Mysticism and Machines
E.R. Truitt revisits John Cohen’s 1963 article on the history of automata and the quest to recreate humanity.
John Cohen's 1963 essay, Automata in Myth and Science, tantalisingly introduces some of the beguiling objects and strange stories that appear, just a few years later, in his monograph Human Robots in Myth and Science (1966).
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