Eliminative materialism is a better way to understand things
than to blame why things happen on Gods and spirits. If scientists did not
decide to really look into theories, we would not have known about evolution.
We would only have the theory that God created everything and not really know
anything else besides that. We do not believe any more that the reason for
thunder and lightning was because of a God. We know now from research that it
comes from electrical magnetic currents that wouldn’t have been known without scientist.
This means that an eliminative materalism is believed that there
are no beliefs or desires.
When Eliminative Materialists were trying to come up with a
theory for this. They thought back to other times when people tried to explain
phenomena and how some of those attempts that had failed really bad. Not all
theories come out the way some one wants it to there are times where the person
has to keep on trying to get the answer. For me to have a better understanding
of the definition I decided to look it up on www.wikipedia.com. 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 is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe
in do not exist. This basically means to myself that not everything your mind
may think is true sometimes it is as if it is an illusion. A person can think
that what they are about to do it right since they are the ones thinking it,
but it can be your mind playing tricks on you. The outcome can be very bad if
your common sense does not get the best of you at the time of your decision. It
is said that our language includes much that is misleading words such
as “pain”, “joy”, and “desire. Those are some of the words that can mislead
someone to believe us in our physical state of mind. It may just be a desire
that our minds have to do something that is not really a good idea.
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