Part one of term paper
, 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 serotonin and acetylcholine ...

Part two of term paper
... reality. Reductive materialism is known to be the reducing of mental activity into physical activity. In its simplest form thoughts are just states of the brain. This is basically a similar form of Descartes line, "I think, therefore I am" or vice versa. Churchland first tries to parallel the identity theory with sound and light. "We now know that sound is just a train of compression waves traveling through the air..." (BR323). Society does know or has some common sense notion of how sou ...