# **Automata** ## **A Profound Existential Experience** _*This article is a Nostr-exclusive so please give it a boost if you think it’s worthy of one!_

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## **Exploring The Underlying Themes** The first impression one may have when they look at Nier: Automata on the surface, is "hot android ch

## **Mechanics** In the game, there are machines that take the form of real-life philosophers, because their specific work seemed most valua

## **Friedrich Nietzsche** _"Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death

## **Pascal Blaise** _“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which

## **Jean-Paul Sartre** _“Existence precedes essence”_ This idea originated from a speech by Friedrich Schelling in December 1841, and can

## **Simone De Beauvoir** Simone de Beauvoir (who had a lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre) wrote of the example of a woman's ident

## **Immanuel Kant** Admittedly, I’m not deeply familiar with Immanuel Kant’s work but I know this much: Kant wrote of the importance of dut

## **Yoko Taro** The creator of the Nier franchise agrees with the existential viewpoint that our lives have no innate meaning whatsoever an

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