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    If mind and body are modes of one substance, their appare... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There can be no mode common to mind and body except the mutual acting of each upon the other.

    If mind and body are modes of one substance, their apparent 'mutual acting' reduces to parallel expressions of the same underlying reality, not a distinct relational mode.

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    • 1.Causal interaction between distinct substances violates the principle that causation requires spatial-temporal contiguity or shared nature.
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    • 2.Parallelism elegantly explains perfect psychophysical correlation without positing mysterious cross-substance causal powers.
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    • 3.If mind and body are genuinely distinct substances, their coordination appears either miraculous or requires infinite causal micromanagement.
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    • 1.Parallelism makes causation within each domain appear epiphenomenal—mental states seem causally inert regarding behavior.
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    • 2.We have direct phenomenological evidence that conscious intentions causally produce bodily movements, not mere parallel expressions.
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    • 3.Positing one substance raises harder questions about how mental and physical properties coexist in identical ontology.
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