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We begin our journey by looking at the early intellectual precursors to the idea of self-reproducing machines, dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Taylor, T., Dorin, A. (2020). Animals and Machines: Changing Relationships in the 17th & 18th Centuries. In: Rise of the Self-Replicators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48234-3_2
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