Malebranche argues that finite substances lack genuine causal power, so what appears as mind-body interaction is in fact God's occasionalist mediation, not a mode intrinsic to their union.

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Causal power(as used in metaphysics): The ability of something to make other things happen or change; the capacity to be a cause.
Malebranche: Nicolas Malebranche was a 17th-century French philosopher who developed the idea that God is the only true cause of everything that happens in the world, and that our minds and bodies don't directly interact but are coordinated by God like two synchronized clocks. He's important because his unusual theory tried to solve the puzzle of how a non-physical mind can affect a physical body, and his ideas influenced later European philosophy. His work represents one of the most creative attempts in Western thought to explain the relationship between mind and matter.
Mediation(Sartre, 1948a, 56; analogous to Merleau-Ponty's account of expression as communication.): The process by which individual expression is related to shared communal meaning, used by Sartre in a sense germane to the existentialist account of expression.
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