ABSTRACT
Conceptual analysis, mathematical formulation, and empirical data collection concerning human motives, affects, reinforcements, values, sentiments, and satisfactions are conducted by political scientists, sociologists, and psychologists. If one is not a mind-body dualist on some other grounds, it is simply good standard science to make the identification. The only reason for introducing a dimension distinct from our psychophysical utility is what gives rise to the traditional “mind-body problem” of the philosophers, namely, the indubitable existence of raw-feel qualities, the distinctively mental states, entities, and events. Psychophysical parallelism postulates causal sequences only within the mental and physical event series, there being no brain-mind interaction. If metaphysical dualism is not accepted, there is only one sort of event going on when a person experiences a satisfaction. In practical matters, economists talk the way a noneconomist would talk, namely, in terms of some rough idea of multiplying numbers of people by the expected average gain or loss they will suffer.
