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Jan 12, 2000 · Some identity theorists give a behaviouristic analysis of mental states, such as beliefs and desires, but others, sometimes called ‘central state materialists’, say that mental states are actual brain states. Identity theorists often describe themselves as ‘materialists’ but ‘physicalists’ may be a better word.
- Mental Causation
Questions about the existence and nature of mental causation...
- Mental Causation
May 23, 2019 · Here, the authors show that the brain represents people as the sums of the mental states that those people are believed to experience.
- Mark A. Thornton, Miriam E. Weaverdyck, Diana I. Tamir
- 2019
Jul 1, 2023 · We explore how this conceptualization of brain state can guide future integrative work to reveal the biology underlying brain dynamics in health and disease. The rapid and coordinated propagation of neural activity across the brain provides the foundation for complex behavior and cognition.
Jun 5, 2012 · Summary. In the previous chapter, we focused on two important metaphysical questions in the philosophy of mind. One was the question of whether persons or subjects of experience are identical with their physical bodies, or certain parts of those bodies, such as their brains.
Jul 1, 2006 · The new strategy is to decode a person's current mental state by learning to recognize characteristic spatial patterns of brain activity associated with...
- John-Dylan Haynes, Geraint Rees
- 2006
Dec 18, 2003 · Questions about the existence and nature of mental causation are prominent in contemporary discussions of the mind and human agency. Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how an immaterial mind, a soul, could interact with the body.
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The Brain State Identity Theory proposes that mental states are identical with brain states. Contrary to Descartes’ dualism, the Identity Theory takes mind to be a physical thing. Namely, it takes the mind to be identical with the brain.
