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What is a Soulless Automaton?

I was watching the first season of
Glee, and New Directions was
performing "Funk" and Jesse from
Vocal Adrenaline was saying how they
had never performed a Funk number
and another member from Vocal
Adrenaline had said "That's because
were Soulless Automatons."

Thanks in advance, and Happy New
Year!

Asked by Megan - 3 days ago -
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An Automaton is basically a Robot.
As for the Glee character he was using
it as a trope, a poetic turn of phrase.

Funk is a genre of music that is meant
to be sung in a playful and carefree
manner. This is evident when you
listen to such Funk groups as "Morris
Day and the Time" and "Parliament".

Having never seen Glee I can't say as
to "New Directions" music style, but
by the sound of what this character is
saying, at least in his eyes his group is
soul- less.

Answer by wolfmano - 3 days ago

It's another term for zombies:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/

Zombies in philosophy are
imaginary creatures used to
illuminate problems about
consciousness and its relation to
the physical world. Unlike those
in films or witchraft, they are
exactly like us in all physical
respects but without conscious
experiences: by definition there is
‘nothing it is like’ to be a zombie.
Yet zombies behave just like us,
and some even spend a lot of time
discussing consciousness.
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