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And then in the 1950s, philosophers had this novel idea that perhaps the mind is just identical with the brain. OK? And this hadn’t occurred to philosophers before, and so happen, it happened around the same time the first department of neuroscience started forming like MIT and Standford so forth. But basically, there are a couple of philosophers both educated here in Oxford Place (1956) and Smart (1959), and they made the claim that the mind just is the brain. So that is the identity theory and with identity, identity in logic is the strongest relation. When you have identity between A and B, you don’t have two things, you have one thing. Alright? So now when you talk about mental events, you are talking about brain events. Maybe when you talk about brain events, you are talking
about mental events. OK? So that’s the identity theory. And it’s very popular, it’s basically the idea that mental properties are just properties of the brain.
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Identity theory is a novel idea proposed by neuroscientists and philosophers in 1950s. Identity theory claims that the mind is the brain. In other words, the brain is identical with the brain, which has occurred philosopher before. Identity in logic is the strongest relationship. When you have identity between A and B, you don’t have two things, you have one thing, which means mental events are the brain events. (69 words)
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