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Soul increasingly reduced to observable mental or bodily processes.
Locke: denies innate ideas—soul as tabula rasa, a passive receiver. Start of the NATURE / NURTURE debate.
Hume: rejects a persistent self; mind is a bundle of perceptions.
La Mettrie: human soul is an effect of bodily mechanisms (*L'homme machine*).
Diderot and French materialists view soul as an illusion of matter in motion.
Mind-body dualism increasingly replaced by monist materialism.
