Explain how the Brain Identity Theory explains the Mind/Body Problem.

 

The problem on how to address the relation between neutral and mental phenomena or physical phenomena is known as the mind-body problem. Processes and states of the mind are usually identical to the processes and states of the brain. This is according to the Brain Identity Theory.

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The problem on how to address the relation between neutral and mental phenomena or physical phenomena is known as the mind-body problem. Processes and states of the mind are usually identical to the processes and states of the brain. This is according to the Brain Identity Theory. This theory therefore identifies the brain and mind as being a matter of identifying processes. It also identifies to the states of brain and mind. For example, if one sees something and it is recorded in the brain, or an experience of pain, or even a mental image. The Brain identity theory explains that these are not correlated with the brain process but they are experiences that affect brain processes. Sometimes, the Brain Identity theory terms the problems associated the mind such as desires and beliefs and calls others central state materials. According to the theory, mental states are actual brain states.