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Full Idea
All the soul's faculties depend so much on the specific organisation of the brain and of the whole body that they are clearly nothing but that organisation.
Gist of Idea
The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation
Source
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (Machine Man [1747], p.26)
Book Ref
La Mettrie,Julien Offray de: 'Machine Man and Other Writings', ed/tr. Thomson,Ann [CUP 1996], p.26
A Reaction
An interesting idea because it suggests that La Mettrie is a functionalist, rather than simply a reductive physicalist.