In 1921, a manuscript appeared whose fragmentary texts sounded suspiciously like they had come from Edgar Allan Poe – except for the fact that it was illustrated with technical drawings, and accompanied by massive mathematical formulae. After a few decades it dawned upon researchers that this might not be a piece of literature (however experimental), but rather a design for a machine, a machine that attempted to recreate Poe’s mind, as a bot.
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