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    Paul Churchland is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies of the brain and philosophy of mind. He holds to eliminative materialism, which argues that folk psychology is wrong and the physical brain rather than an imaginary mind gives rise to the sense of self. Specifically, Churchland asserts that the self originates from electromagnetic signals produced by the brain, not a separate mind or soul. Eliminative materialism posits that as neuroscience advances, some psychological concepts may not fit with what is discovered about how the physical brain works.

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    Paul Churchland is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies of the brain and philosophy of mind. He holds to eliminative materialism, which argues that folk psychology is wrong and the physical brain rather than an imaginary mind gives rise to the sense of self. Specifically, Churchland asserts that the self originates from electromagnetic signals produced by the brain, not a separate mind or soul. Eliminative materialism posits that as neuroscience advances, some psychological concepts may not fit with what is discovered about how the physical brain works.

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    Paul Churchland is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies of the brain and philosophy of mind. He holds to eliminative materialism, which argues that folk psychology is wrong and the physical brain rather than an imaginary mind gives rise to the sense of self. Specifically, Churchland asserts that the self originates from electromagnetic signals produced by the brain, not a separate mind or soul. Eliminative materialism posits that as neuroscience advances, some psychological concepts may not fit with what is discovered about how the physical brain works.

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    PAUL MONTGOMERY CHURCHLAND

     born in Vancouver, Canada on October 12, 1942


     a Canadian philosopher and author known for his studies of the brain and
    the philosophy of mind.
     married to fellow philosopher Patricia Churchland
     currently the Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,
    San Diego.
     his research focuses on epistemology, perception, philosophy of cognitive
    science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, and philosophy
    of science.

    PAULS CHURCHLAND’S PHILOSOPHY OF SELF

     Churchland holds to eliminative materialism. Stated simply, eliminative


    materialism argues that the ordinary folk psychology of the mind is wrong.
    It is the physical brain and not the imaginary mind that gives us our sense
    of self.
     The physical brain and not the imaginary mind that gives us our sense of
    self. (which means that our mind and body is different)
     Somehow similar to the philosophy of Rene Descartes (“When we examine
    ourselves deeply, we will know all about ourselves”)
     Also somehow similar to the philosophy of Plato (“The self should have the
    body and the soul”)

    ANALYSIS

     Overall, eliminative materialism means the self is the brain. We always use
    our senses to see or feel real situation. Brain as our provider to see, feel,
    touch, taste, and smell
     Churchland asserted the sense of self is originated from the brain itself and
    that self is a product of an electromagnetic signals produced by the
    brain.
     Eliminative materialism got two parts. Materialism stated that there is only
    the brain that mental processes such as remembering, learning, feeling
    hungry, feeling dizzy that these states that we’re aware of are actually
    states of the physical brain itself. Materialism is the idea that all what we
    think of as the mind is something that the brain does. Eliminative means as
    the neuroscience develops and as we discover more and more about the
    way the physical brain works some of the psychological categories may
    not fit very well onto things that we are discovering about the nature of
    the brain. Categories such as the will of where you might think of.
     There are a whole lot of areas of the brain that cooperate and integrate
    when decisions and choices are made.

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