Eliminative materialism

Eliminative materialism is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. It is the idea that the majority of the mental states in folk psychology do not exist. Some supporters of eliminativism argue that no coherent neural basis will be found for many everyday psychological concepts such as belief or desire, since they are poorly defined. RaTher, they argue that psychological concepts of behaviour and experience should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level. OTher versions entail the non-existence of conscious mental states such as pain and visual perceptions. Eliminativism about a class of entities is the view that the class of entities does not exist. For example, materialism tends to be eliminativist about the soul; modern chemists are eliminativist about phlogiston; artographers were once eliminativist about a globe shaped Earth; and modern physicists are eliminativist about the existence of luminiferous aeTher.