Psycophysical Parallelism

• Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

  • Historian, mathematician, philosopher, scientist, diplomat

• Rejected interactionism

  • Two such dissimilar elements can’t interact

• Rejected occasionalism

  • No third entity can cause such different effects (Deus ex machina)

• Proposed Parallelism

  • Mind & body exist in harmony

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