Writing on the effects of physical conditions on the souledit
La Mettrie cites how the body and soul are one in sleep, how humans must nourish their bodies, and the intense effects of drugs on both the body and the soul, or mind, noting that "diverse states of the soul are always correlated with those of the body."[1]
Materialism in relation to evolution and quantum mechanismedit
"Yet the doctrine that man is a machine was argued most forcefully in 1751, long before the theory of evolution became generally accepted, by de La Mettrie; and the theory of evolution gave the problem an even sharper edge, by suggesting there may be no clear distinction between living matter and dead matter. And, in spite of the victory of the new quantum theory, and the conversion of so many physicists to indeterminism, de La Mettrie's doctrine that man is a machine has perhaps more defenders than before among physicists, biologists and philosophers; especially in the form of the thesis that man is a computer."[2]
^ abde La Mettrie, Julien Offray (2003). Machine man and other writings. Translated by Thomson, Ann (Hardback version transferred to digital print. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9780521478496.
^Popper, K.: Of Clouds and Clocks, included in Objective Knowledge, revised, 1978, p. 224.
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Man a Machine - 1748 English translation of L'homme machine
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