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    Leibniz's pre-established harmony holds that soul and bod... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The soul cannot form sensible perceptions in itself on the occasion of particular motions in the bodily sensory apparatus

    Leibniz's pre-established harmony holds that soul and body operate in perfect synchrony through their own internal principles, requiring no causal or occasionalist intermediary.

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    • 1.Pre-established harmony avoids the interaction problem: if mind and body causally affect each other, how can immaterial soul influence material body?
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    • 2.God's omniscience supports pre-established harmony: an omniscient creator could coordinate all substances' internal principles from creation onward.
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    • 3.Each substance operating by its own laws is metaphysically more elegant than requiring constant external intervention or occasionalist divine acts.
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    • 1.Pre-established harmony is empirically unfalsifiable: perfect synchrony without interaction is indistinguishable from actual causal influence.
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    • 2.The view paradoxically multiplies entities: invoking God's coordinating act is no simpler than admitting mind-body causation or occasionalism.
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    • 3.Libertarian agency becomes unintelligible: if my body's movements are determined solely by its internal principles, how do my decisions cause actions?
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