Part one of term paper
For many centuries, people have pondered upon the question if there is a relation between what we think and what we do physically. Our physical brain gives way to a mind, full of thoughts and processes, but what interaction do the two have? Materialism is a way that people consider the relations between mind and matter to be inseparable. W ...

Part two of term paper
... and nervous system. Once the mind is reduced onto an aspect of out central nervous system, mental states are considered neurophysiological. The explanation thesis believes that "human and animal behavior is best-fully and most deeply-explained by something physical…in the more contemporary sense of neurochemistry and neurophysiology. Rational or intelligent action is the upshot of processes or activities physically internal to the brain."(Graham, 129) The exclusionist thesis states that huma ...