Ramachandran Homework

1. What is materialism
Materialism is a type of monism belief that states everything in this world is made out of material. Monists deny the existence of something spiritual like soul, ghost, or spirit. They say this world is made out of physical matter and it alone exists.
2. Explain Brain Chemistry argument for materialism
Brain Chemistry supports monism because it states that emotions such as love, grief, and happiness is nothing but a hormone in brain. Brain Chemists are locating which part of brain is responsible for which emotions or other function of our body this they are supporting the fact that everything is made out of physical matter. It prove their view that there are no such things that go beyond physical dimension.
3. Explain clearly how Ramachandran's three examples can support the brain chemistry argument for materialism.
Ranchandran's three examples Capgras Syndrome, phantom limb, and synesthesia. Capgras Syndrome which relates to our emotion supported that emotions rise from our brain. A man who had a brain injury could not recognize his mother when he saw her, he did recognized that the person standing in front of him looks like his mother but he felt no affection from her. This example showed that our emotion are not something unphysical but simply a work of our brain. Second case phantom limb cure also prove brain chemists' view. Ramachandran came up with an idea that in order to cure the phantom all we need to do is to fool our brain. So he prepared a mirror that would reflect the right hand's movement and thus fooling the brain that the left hand is actually moving. So the patient would be released from pain, this prove that our emotion "pain" is also a work of brain and can be simply fooled by a visual effect. Last case Stnesthesia proves that when a person sees an object and easily associate with seemingly unassociated objects. It proves that this things arent anything spiritual thing but its simply a brain error that the person was born with.