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ismnotwasm

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3. Didn't Voltaire have a badass quote about that?

Reply to ananda (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 24, 2013, 01:52 PM

Apr 2013

I've never been able to find it after I read it once. It's when they decided since animals didn't have souls, torturing poor dogs by living autopsy was just okey dokey, since they couldn't 'really' feel anything.

Voltaire said something about how since they found the same body processes in a dog (heart, lungs, intestines etc) that should give Mechanists a fucking clue. In elegant, Voltaire speak of course.

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René Descartes [View all] Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 OP

We owe our descent into mechanism to Descartes. ananda Apr 2013 #1

are you speaking to free will? n/t Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 #2

Didn't Voltaire have a badass quote about that? ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #3