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	<title>The Core Blog &#187; Descartes</title>
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		<title>One Of Us: Discussing Descartes &amp; Animal Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to CC201&#8242;s study of The Renaissance is the essay &#8216;One Of Us&#8217; by John Jeremiah Sullivan on animal consciousness, in which he discusses Descartes&#8217; views on the topic. Here is an extract: Descartes’ term for them [animals] was automata—windup toys, like the Renaissance protorobots he’d seen as a boy in the gardens at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, “hydraulic statues” that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #169: Discourse on Method and Meditations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to the reading that the students of CC201 have done on Descartes&#8217; work, here is today&#8217;s analect: Although in approaching the flame I feel heat, and even though in approaching it a little too closely I feel pain, there is still no reason that can convince me that there is some quality in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #58</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Je ne dirai rien de la philosophie, sinon que, voyant qu&#8217;elle a été cultivée par les plus excellents esprits qui aient vécu depuis plusieurs siècles, et que néanmoins il ne s&#8217;y trouve encore aucune chose dont on ne dispute, et par conséquent qui ne soit douteuse, je n&#8217;avois point assez de présomption pour espérer d&#8217;y [...]]]></description>
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