The Mind/Body Identity Theory
Hi, in this post we will talk about the Mind/Body Identity Theory . • The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. Strictly speaking, it need not hold that the mind is identical to the brain. Idiomatically we do use "she has a good mind" and "She has a good brain" interchangeably but we would hardly say "Her mind weighs fifty kilograms". Here I take identifying mind and brain as being a matter of identifying processes and perhaps states of the mind and brain. Consider an experience of pain, or of seeing something, or of having a mental image. The identity theory of mind is to the effect that these experiences just are brain processes, not merely correlated with brain processes. Some philosophers hold that though experiences are brain processes they nevertheless have fundamentally non-physical, psychical, properties, sometimes called "qualia". Here I shall take the...