Music, Mind and Programs

In the novel Die Autoanate (Hoffmann, 1957 ed.), the German writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) describes different kinds of musical automatons which play music with expression and musicality. The whole novel is based on the effect of the automatic performances on the feelings of the two personages and on the appearance of musical automatons which simulate, with their musical skill and expressiveness, the structures of the knowledge and feelings of human beings. Such a theme is not surprising in that period. At the end of the 18th century, the representation of man as a machine was a featuring point of philosophical thought (La Mettrie, 1970; Cabanis 1960). But the relevant feature of the novel was representing the

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