Charles has mentioned several times Julien Offray de La Mettrie -
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In recent reading in the work of David Glidden on Epicurean Thought and Anticipations, this reference to La Mettrie occurs:
I don't know much about La Mettrie at all, but Charles apparently does, so this is at thread to use to document how La Mettrie may deepen our understanding of what Epicurus was saying about the physics of thought.