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are-we-automata-by-william-james-1879

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article from 1879, William James discusses the Conscious-Automaton-theory, which claims that humans are purely material machines
Conscious-Automaton-theory to which Prof. Huxley[1]
The theory maintains that in everything outward we are pure material machines.
argumentum an hominem which need not detain