Evaluation of Identity Theory and

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Philosophy

 

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Michael B

 

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February 14, 2014

 

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The scientific consensus about the human mind is a Materialist account, which suggests that everything in the world is material. Therefore, the mind is entirely physico-chemical, and all behaviors, experiences and sensations can be explained by brain processes in the central nervous system. J.J.C. Smart argued that sensations are identical with brain processes...
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J.J.C. Smart argued that sensations are identical with brain processes. Identity Theorists use identity in the strict sense of the word; when Smart claims that sensations are brain processes, he does not mean that they are of the same type of thing, but that they are numerically identical. "When I say that sensation is a brain process?I do not mean just that the sensation is somehow spatially or temporally continuous with the brain process?" explains Smart (235)...
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