While this is not seen in religious terms, the highest form of knowing is to look beyond the complications connected to philosophies such as dualism.

             c) As seen above, materialism sees everything as reducible to physical processes. Ultimately, all ideas, religion and philosophy are based upon processes within the human brain. All changes in philosophy are then also the result of physical processes within the brain. The traditional duality of mind and body are therefore only manifestations of the neurological dependence of the mind upon physical processes within the brain. What is seen as the mind, according to this view, is entirely dependent, and indeed the same as, the body. If one reverts to what was said above, the mind also can be reduced to a process within the brain. All decisions, feelings and philosophies are the result of chemical processes that occur in the physical brain. Materialism in this case follows the philosophy of reductionism, in that consciousness can be identified with information processing. Materialism in this case then incorporates the ideas of monism as well as reductionism: mind and body are the same; and both can be reduced to physical processes within the brain, without which neither can exist.

             d) Evolutionary biology is also incorporated into the simple materialist philosophy. Here both reductionism and monism once again play a role. All living things, according to the theory of evolution, can be traced back to a single, simple organism billions of millennia ago. There is no question of an outside entity or consciousness having formed life on earth. Instead, according to the strictly materialistic point of view, human beings gradually developed and became more complex over the duration of time. This is then also used to explain the reasons for the apparent human superiority over animals. It is simply that their brains are bigger and more complex.