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    It is not the case that God is the cause of sensible perceptions in the soul whenever corresponding motions occur in the sensory organs

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    • 1.Pre-established harmony (Leibniz) explains soul-body coordination without God intervening causally at each moment of perception.
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    • 2.A God who must continuously intervene to produce each sensation is less perfect than one whose creation operates through intrinsic programmed coordination.
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    • 3.Occasionalism renders natural causation a mere fiction, making the lawlike regularities of nature inexplicable as genuine features of the world.
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    • 1.Spinoza's dual-aspect monism holds that mental and physical events are identical modifications of one substance, eliminating the explanatory gap occasionalism invokes.
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    • 2.If mind and body are parallel attributes of a single infinite substance, no tertiary divine cause is needed to correlate bodily motions with sensible perceptions.
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    • 1.Bodily motion cannot directly act on the soul as a physical cause
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    • 2.The soul cannot form sensible perceptions in itself on the occasion of bodily motions
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    • 3.Sensible perceptions do in fact arise in the soul when corresponding bodily motions occur
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