If I wanted to communicate to you that I have a headache (which is a non-material conscious state) and I say "My C-fibers are fi
ring", I am eliminating the less accurate sentence ("I have a headache") for the more accurate sentence "My C-fibers are firing"). This is an example of the theory of ___________. Select one: a. existentialism
b. eliminitivism
c. descriptivism
d. objectivism
e. determinism
Eliminative materialism also known as eliminativism is the revolutionary argument that our common-sense perception of the brain is profoundly wrong and that some or all of the common-sense mental states do not exist and have no influence in well-established cognitive science.
In the case given, we are eliminating the basic perception of <em>having a headache </em>for <em>"My C-fibers are firing"</em> which is much more of a scientific description of the simple pain in the head.
