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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 se ....
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.... 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. con ....
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