Man a Machine
Man a Machine (French: L'homme machine) is a work of
.Writing on the effects of physical conditions on the soul
La Mettrie cites how the body and soul are one in
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 mechanism
quantum mechanics
.
"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]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 9780521478496.
- ^ Popper, K.: Of Clouds and Clocks, included in Objective Knowledge, revised, 1978, p. 224.
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Wikiquote has quotations related to Man a Machine.
- Man a Machine - 1748 English translation of L'homme machine
- 1912 Open Court French-English edition (English translation by Gertrude C. Bussey, rev. by Mary Whiton Calkins) Full text of same archived by Project Gutenberg.
- 'Review by the stand up philosophers'
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