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The concepts 'brain' and 'reductionism' are related because Derek Parfit's reductionist claims explicitly state that 'a person’s existence consists in the existence of a brain and body, and the occurrence of a series of interrelated physical and mental events,' directly linking the brain to reductionist views of personal identity via [1].
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
quoteDerek Parfit identifies two prominent reductionist claims: first, that 'a person’s existence consists in the existence of a brain and body, and the occurrence of a series of interrelated physical and mental event'; and second, that '[t]hough persons exist, we could give a complete description of reality without claiming that persons exist.'