Eliminative materialism

Eliminative materialism is the claim that psychological concepts of behaviour and experience should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level.

Quotes

• To deny consciousness ... is a relief to an overtaxed and self-impeded generation; it seems a blessed simplification. It gets rid of the undemocratic notion that by being very reflective, circumspect and subtle you might discover something that most people do not see.
  • George Santayana, “Philosophical opinion in America,” The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1967), p. 108

See also

• Consciousness
• Materialism