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Leviathan

From the introduction to Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes:

Nature (the art whereby God has made and governs the world) is, by the art of Man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of the 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 does 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?

Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, Man. For by art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or State (in Latin Civitas), which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defense it was intended; and in which, the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole 5358%&

Lastly, the pacts and covenants, by which the parts of this body politic were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the "Let us make man," pronounced by God in the creation.

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(failed to load profile) It's obvious that Hobbes has read Straton and is extrapolating the The Talos Principle to the level of the state. But unlike Straton, all he wishes for at the end of the day is a powerful ruler to control this machine - to tell him what to do.

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