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deus ex machina/ghost in the machine
wot does it mean, i know it's Latin. deus is ghost and machina is machine, but they didn't have machines?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I read that it means "Machine of the Gods" And is actually a literary device used by novelists for clearing up complex plots easily. Apparently it comes from Ancient Greek theatre when to a "God" would be winched down and decree how a complicated section of the play would be resolved. A cheat for a playwrite basically!
Rene Descartes - Philosopy. The ghost is the spirit & the shell is the body. Similar to the original question of ghost in the machine.
see link below:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/8509/posthum1.html
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