tween the brain and the mind.Specifically, he thought that the neurons jumped off of the pineal gland to aunexplainable being that he called the mind. Sober sums up, that the Identity Theory is aform of materialism and anything that is mental in nature is realistically physical innature. In addition, this theory waits for science to discover a physical reason thathumans think that snow is white or how humans came to define a certain color.Moreover, this theory through discovery would have to prove that everyone sees the samecolor with out variation or if there were variation, there would have to be a physicaltangible reason that causes the variation. An adductive principle, founded by William of Ockham states that it is much easierto adopt the Identity Theory rather than Cartesian Dualism because it is much simpler innature. Parsimony is another term used for simple, but it includes reasoning that it ismore logical to believe in a simple answer than a complex one. For example, if scienceshould discover that mental processes are physical in nature, why would anyone want togo through the trouble of separating the two by adding a sort of mysticism to the factualfindings? Of course, if the Identity Theory is an absolute, then the thought of any eternalexistence after death would be preposterous. Once the material matter ceases to exist, sodoes the mind. It seems to me that all of mankind innately believes in a life hereafter.This can be seen by observing man’s need for religion and it is an existing debatewhether even Atheism is a religion of sorts because an Atheist must have faith that thereis no God. Moreover, evolutionists practice faith when they claim that the missing linkexists, but is yet to be found. Furthermore, it has been said that religions originated forthe purpose of controlling the masses, yet in a free country such as America, religions ofall sorts spring up and citizens gravitate to them....
