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J.J.C. Smart (1920–2012)added materialism to scientific reductionism in this developing point of view by claiming that mental states could literally be particular states of the brain – so that for example some C-fibres(C繊維:神経線維の種類の一つ。細く無髄で伝達速度が遅い。感覚神経、および自律神経の節後線維を構成)firing in one’s brain would be identical with a specific feeling of pain. This became known as the Mind-Brain Identity Theory, and for a while it dominated philosophical discussions about mental events.
J.J.C. Smart, ‘Sensations and Brain Processes’, Philosophical Review, vol. LXVII, 1959.