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[If a machine were invented that produced paintings like those of Raphael, would these paintings continue to be beautiful?
"That is true. But the Raphael machine has never been common; but the products of this machine are not as common as oak leaves; but, by a natural and I would say almost invincible inclination of the spirit, we are led to attribute to this machine a will, an intelligence, a program, a freedom. Suppose Raphael eternal, immobile before his canvas, necessarily forced to paint continuously. Multiply these imitative machines on all sides. Let the pictures arise in nature like the plants, the trees, the fruits that serve as models for them; and tell me where your admiration would end. That beautiful order that enchants you in the universe cannot be other than what it is. You know only one universe, the one in which you live.]
Denis Diderot
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