Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) / quote 46 of 138

Behaviorism: the mind is the behavior of the body

The earliest influential form of materialism in the twentieth century was called “behaviorism.” In its crudest version, behaviorism says the mind just is the behavior of the body. There is nothing over and above the behavior of the body that is constitutive of the mental. Behaviorism comes in two flavors, “methodological behaviorism” and “logical behaviorism.”

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