Mental
What if Your Inner Life is an Illusion?
When you say "I believe" or "I desire", you're using categories that may not correspond to anything real in your brain. The Churchlands suggest these folk psychological terms are like saying someone has "bad humors" instead of a bacterial infection.
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The thinker
Neurophilosophy pioneers
Paul and Patricia Churchland are philosophers who revolutionized our understanding of mind and brain, arguing that neuroscience will eventually replace our folk psychological concepts.
Based on The Churchlands on Folk Psychology, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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