Churchland's Argument from Neural Dependence Points Out That Drugs and Injuries

question 63

Multiple Choice

Churchland's argument from neural dependence points out that drugs and injuries affecting the brain can have very strong impacts on reasoning, emotion, and consciousness. He believes that this shows that reasoning, emotion, and consciousness

• A) Don't involve any nonphysical properties.
• B) Take place in the brain, not in a nonphysical mental substance.
• C) Are mediative functions of the brain.
• D) Can be explained by a dualist theory of mind.

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