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The totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts.
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book VIII.

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On January 2, 1921, in a theater in Hradec Králové, Czech writer Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. received its world premiere. The initials stood for “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” a fictional company that created a line of intelligent workers, and from which the word “robot” was coined.

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