Paul Chuchland, \"Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism\" In this selection,

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Paul Chuchland, "Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism" In this selection, Paul Churchland discusses two prominent physicalist alternatives to the Identity Theosy. His picccs consists of a prescntation of cach view and various possible arguments that have been posed against them. According to the Functionalist view, mental states are not to be identified with particular brain states but rather with functional roles that consist of the relations that cach state bares to certain systemic inputs, behavioral outputs and other mental states. Churchland points out that this view avoids the problem of chauvinism since these roles can be played by all sorts of things depending on what system they are in. He goes on to discuss the problems of the inverted spectrum and absent qualia as well as various solutions. Contrary to the Functionalist view, the Eliminative Materialist is also pessimistic about the prospects of neuroscience finding any identities between mental states and brain states but instead of different view about what mental states are, the Eliminative Materialist suggests we should abandon them. Psychology, they argue, is not a science that should be preserved but rather eliminated in favor of a developed neuroscience. To argue for the view its attendant concepts of mental states of various sorts, has failed to progress significantly and points out a number of historical examples of instances in which scientific advance in a field prompted scientists to conclude that earlier concepts in fact picked out nothing in the real world. This, of course, Jed to their abandonment. posing a Chuchland notes that psychology-with

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1) inputs

2) many different physical systems can realize the same functional roles

3) each mental instance is identitcal to a physical instance

4) is identical to behaviourism

5) both answers are correct

6) none of the answers are correct

7) They are identical to certain mental beliefs

8) both the answers are correct

10) neuroscience

11) qualia

12) all the answers are correct

13) hostory has not demonstrated examples of conceptual elimination

14) all of the answers are correct

15) they both thinnk mental states will not be type identical to brain states

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