According to Churchland, the most decisive argument against substance dualism is that
A) Ockham's razor tells us to prefer the simpler explanation, which is materialism.
B) neuroscience has shown that movement, perception, and learning occur in the brain.
C) even hard-to-explain mental phenomena such as emotion and reasoning can be affected by physical or chemical changes in the brain.
D) although substance dualism predicts the existence of psychic abilities, there is no good evidence that anyone has such abilities.

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Churchland argues that the ability of physical or chemical changes in the brain to affect mental phenomena undermines the dualist notion of a separate, non-physical mind.

According to Churchland, the Most Decisive Argument Against Substance Dualism