{"version":"1.0","type":"link","title":"Animal machine - Newikis","description":"Animal machine (French: bête-machine), also known as animal automatism, is a concept in early modern philosophy associated especially with René Descartes. In Descartes' account, non-human animals are automata whose behaviour can be explained by bodily mechanism rather than by reason or an…","provider_name":"Newikis","provider_url":"https://newikis.com","cache_age":86400,"thumbnail_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Frans_Hals_-_Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes.jpg","thumbnail_width":817,"thumbnail_height":1000}