Inventors are a cornerstone of human civilisation. Our greatest gift is the ability to create, to teach, to learn, and to pass our inventions down to our descendants. Leonardo Da Vinci, Nichola Tesla, Ada Lovelace - all titans of human invention. Our subject of today’s discussion is none of them. He was an inventor, of sorts, but his ideas were so strange that even those who followed him couldn’t fully grasp it. It’s up to you to decide whether it’s possible to bring an automaton to life, with a genuine soul...

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