Physicalism

Introduction
This is one of the simpler core ideas as what it starts out with is 'everything is physical'. This seems to make sense on first glance as everything we run into on a day-to-day basis is physical, however, when you start to apply this to the functions of the mind, this stops holding up so well.

Wider Reading

 * Materialism
 * Behaviourism
 * Functionalism

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