INTIMACY

Can love for an artificial being remain genuine after its artificial nature is known?

Span c. 8 CE–1938
Works 7
Languages Latin, French, German, English
Status Draft question and agent-proposed arguments. Source checks are partial; historian review is pending.

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1790Kant, Critique of JudgementQ39retained passage; question placement proposed by Codex, not independently reviewedrelevant: candidate
What is more highly praised by poets than the bewitching and beautiful note of the nightingale in a lonely copse on a still summer evening by the soft light of the moon? And yet we have instances of a merry host, where no such songster was to be found, deceiving to their great contentment the guests who were staying with him to enjoy the country air, by hiding in a bush a mischievous boy who knew how to produce this sound exactly like nature (by means of a reed or a tube in his mouth). But as soon as we are aware that it is a cheat, no one will remain long listening to the song which before was counted so charming. And it is just the same with the songs of all other birds.

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