Quote: Aristotle: could do without subordinates if inanimate instruments could do their own work by command or intelligent anticipation

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There is only one condition on which we … each [inanimate] instrument could do its own work, … tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates … shuttle would weave of itself, and a plectrum …   Google-1   Google-2

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