Man as Machine La Mettrie Reconsidered Part 1 of 3[Robin Allott]

see http://www.percepp.com/genoa.ppt
La Mettrie in the 18th century proposed that Man, that is the human being, was a machine. This presentation considers how far we are in fact machines and how it is that we have become much more than a machine in the course of evolution

For background see http://www,percepp.com Language and Evolution

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mettrie
• mind
• language
• machine
• sexuality
• evolution
• brain-size