# Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines; the animal-machine thesis is a documented cost, not a unique pineal coefficient

Date: 1637

## The fact

The Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines. The animal-machine thesis is a documented cost. It is not a unique pineal coefficient. René Descartes's documented role is: He published a mechanistic account of animal bodies that denies animal thought as humans have it. Later readers used it. He did not invent all dissection.

## Context

Harvey is the neighbouring circulation file Descartes partly accepts. Sharing anatomists without washing animals with blood-motion is required. The setting of Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines; the animal-machine thesis is a documented cost, not a unique pineal coefficient is the public file around 1637-06-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals / mechanism neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, mind and animals neighbourhood at https://iep.utm.edu/descmind/ (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals / mechanism neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, mind and animals neighbourhood (https://iep.utm.edu/descmind/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, animals / mechanism neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Worsening path from Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines; the animal-machine thesis is a documented cost, not a unique pineal coefficient on 1637-06-01. A public animal-machine thesis is a humanitarian-harm path of high confidence on the text. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not store a unique pineal coefficient. Do not twin with Harvey's circulation as the same claim. Mixed effects of Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines; the animal-machine thesis is a documented cost, not a unique pineal coefficient are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines; the animal-machine thesis is a documented cost, not a unique pineal coefficient under 1637-06-01 for René Descartes. Established: a sourced public record of Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines; the animal-machine thesis is a documented cost, not a unique pineal coefficient under 1637-06-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Discourse and later Passions treat non-human animals as machines; the animal-machine thesis is a documented cost, not a unique pineal coefficient. Naming René Descartes does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1637-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- René Descartes: https://factrail.ai/people/rene-descartes

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/descmind/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/des-animal-machine