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And then in the 1950s, philosophers had this novel idea that perhaps the mind is just identical with the brain. OK? And this had occurred to philosophers before, and so happen, it happened around the same time the first department of neuroscience started forming like MIT in Sandford so for. But basically, there is a couple of philosophers both educated here in Oxford Place (1956) and Smart (1959), and they made the claim that the mind just is the brain. So that is the identity theory and with identity, identity in logic is the strongest relation. When you have identity between A and B, you don’t have two things, you have one thing. Alright? So now when you talk about mental events, you are talking about brain events. Maybe when you talk about brain events, you are talking about mental events. So that’s the identity theory. The identity theory is very popular and the basic idea is that mental properties are just properties of the brain.

In the 1950s, philosophers proposed the identity theory, suggesting that the mind is identical to the brain. This theory emerged alongside the formation of neuroscience departments. Prominent philosophers, such as those from Oxford, argued that mental events are essentially brain events, positing that mental properties are brain properties, thus establishing a strong logical relationship between the two.