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The Identity Theory - Online Term Paper

The Identity Theory

, also known as reductive materialism, is one of the views
Churchland uses to describe mind-brain correlation. Churchland believes that
the mental states of the body are one and in the same (double aspectism) with
brain states. They are the same because the biochemical actions produced in
brain states (release of serotonin and acetylcholine) have direct interaction with the mental states (mood disorders such as depression). With the help of
psychological and physiological evidence can be better
supported. It has not yet been proven but following along with the symptoms,
diagnosis, and treatment of biochemical disorders of the brain has a strong case towards becoming ...

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consider it just "sound". Even though we are not automatically thinking when we here a sound, "it is waves traveling through air", we are aware to the fact that is how sound travels. This parallelism is intertheoretic reduction; taking an older version of reductive materialism and using it to help explain a newer version, Churchland's identity theory.
Neural activity and neuroscience play a major role in the identity theory. "...the correct account of human-behavior-and-its-causes must reside in the physical neurosciences" (MR324). Neurosciences and cognitive psychology
have been used together to explain brain states and mental states correlation.
"And those behavior-controlling internal operations are precisely what the
neurosciences are about" (BR324). Neuroscience is described as being
behavior that which is a result of neural activity in the brain (i.e. consciousness). This consciousness is a result of neural activity in the brain producing thoughts and then ...

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Added: 10/20/2005 02:02:54 AM
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