“The purpose of art has never been labor-saving but labor-loving, a deliberate elaboration of function, form, and symbolic ornament to enhance the interest of life itself.” — Mumford, Lewis. The Myth of the Machine : the Pentagon of Power. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
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“The scientific method left every tentative truth open for further examination and correction: provided that one accepted without question the assumptions of the system itself. Since science offered no path into private and subjective experience, it was forced to deny either its importance or its existence.” — Mumford, Lewis. The Myth of the Machine : the Pentagon of Power, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970).
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“For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within, why may we not say that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the Artificer?” — Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan.
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“No machine, however complex its nature or however ingenious its human inventor, can even theoretically be made to replicate a man, for in order to do so it would have to draw upon two or three billion years of diversified experience.” — Mumford, Lewis. The Myth of the Machine : The Pentagon of Power. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
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