Materialist Theory
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For many centuries, people have pondered upon the question if there is a relation between what we think and what we do physically. Our physical brain gives way to a mind, full of thoughts and processes, but what interaction do the two have? Materialism is a way that people consider the relations ....
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.... and neurophysiology. Rational or intelligent action is the upshot of processes or activities physically internal to the brain."(Graham, 129) The exclusionist thesis states that human beings possess no special power which regular physical systems and objects normally lack. Our concept of free choice or free will is a mental concept, and since no physical system is free, there is no free will. The human soul can not exist because the soul is something mental and when the body dies, ....
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