Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a
materialist position in the
philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people's common-sense understanding of the
mind (or
folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist. Some eliminativists claim that no
neural correlates will be found for many everyday psychological concepts, such as
belief and
desire, and that behaviour and experience can be explained adequately only on the biological level. Other versions entail the non-existence of conscious mental states such as
pains and
visual perceptions.
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The position that
folk psychology is a false theory and that corresponding notions such as belief, experience, and sensation are fundamentally mistaken. The alternate most often offered is
physicalist and the position is thus often called 'eliminative
materialism '.
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