@article{10.18756/edn.73.75,
	title = {{Materialism is NOT a Mechanistic World View}},
	shorttitle = {{Materialism is NOT a Mechanistic World View}},
	author = {Cruse, Don},
	journal = {Elemente der Naturwissenschaft},
	year = {2000},
	volume = {73},
	pages = {75--80},
	url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/edn.73.75},
	doi = {10.18756/edn.73.75},
	issn = {p-ISSN 0422-9630},
	language = {en},
	abstract = {<p>{\guillemotleft}The machine image objectivizes at a stroke whatever it touches by emphasizing its inherent otherness from man, its non-communicability. In the magical world-view of the Old Gnosis, all things - animal, plant, mineral - radiate meanings; they are intelligible beings - or the natural faces such beings put on for us in the physical world. But for Newton, the celestial spheres comprise a machine; for Descartes animals become machines; for Hobbes, society is a machine; for La Mettrie, the human body is a machine; eventually for Pavlov and Watson, human behaviour is machine like. So steadily, the natural world dies as it hardens into mechanistic imagery.{\guillemotright} [...]<br />
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},
	annote = {<p>{\guillemotleft}The machine image objectivizes at a stroke whatever it touches by emphasizing its inherent otherness from man, its non-communicability. In the magical world-view of the Old Gnosis, all things - animal, plant, mineral - radiate meanings; they are intelligible beings - or the natural faces such beings put on for us in the physical world. But for Newton, the celestial spheres comprise a machine; for Descartes animals become machines; for Hobbes, society is a machine; for La Mettrie, the human body is a machine; eventually for Pavlov and Watson, human behaviour is machine like. So steadily, the natural world dies as it hardens into mechanistic imagery.{\guillemotright} [...]<br />
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}
}