"The automaton is the ultimate categorical anomaly. It is an artificial object that acts as if it is alive; […] it is a representation that refuses to remain a stable version of what is represented; it comes from the inanimate world but has the characteristics of an animate creature; and finally, it is a manmade thing that is mimicking living beings. [….] The binary categories of living/dead, animate/inanimate, creature/object all break down in its wake, as it moves from one to the other, mesmerizing and terrorizing its beholders by turns.“ -Sublime Dreams of Living Machines, by Minsoo Kang