OldLady
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Science observes and labels. It doesn't actually define.Thoughts were long thought (hah) to be immaterial, but if they're able to reduce them down to brain states then it's damning evidence for the assumption that "mind" is something separate from "brain."
The photographic printing of a memory (2014) and the ability to manipulate thoughts with the physical restructuring of the brain (usually observed via head trauma) is evidence, albeit not proof, that even thoughts are material.
Also, hormones and gut bacteria affect thoughts.