Consciousness and Life
1977; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 52; Issue: 199 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0031819100021513
ISSN1469-817X
Autores Tópico(s)Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
ResumoIn L. Frank Baum's story, Ozma of Oz , which is a sequel to Baum's much more famous story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Dorothy and her companion come upon a wound-down mechanical man bearing a label on which are printed the following words: Smith and Tinker's Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive, Thought-Creating Perfect-Talking MECHANICAL MAN Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live ( Ozma of Oz , Chicago, 1907, p. 43) As Dorothy and her companion are made to discover when they wind up this man (‘Tik-Tok’ is his name), he is indeed capable of doing all the things of which his label boasts—acting, speaking and even thinking. But as Tik-Tok himself insists, and no one in the story casts doubt on the matter, he is not alive.
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