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    The human mind cannot have sensation of material objects. — Carmelics
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    The human mind cannot have sensation of material objects.

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    • 1.Malebranche's occasionalism holds that God is the sole true cause, meaning finite minds never directly contact material objects.
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    • 2.What we call 'sensation' is God producing ideas in the mind on the occasion of bodily states, not genuine mind-matter interaction.
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    • 3.Therefore, the mind experiences only God-mediated ideas, never material objects themselves, confirming their mutual inaccessibility.
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    • 1.Leibniz's monadology entails that monads are windowless, receiving no causal input from external material substances.
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    • 2.Each mind unfolds perceptions from its own internal program via pre-established harmony, with no genuine reception from matter.
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    • 3.Sensation is thus an internal representation coordinated with bodily states, not a genuine awareness of external material objects.
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    • 1.The human mind is a purely active spiritual substance.
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    • 2.Sensation is a purely passive process.
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    • 3.A purely active substance cannot engage in purely passive processes.
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    Another line of discussion that relates to the problem of dualism and the nature of ideas is advanced in 1734 by Ghanaian philosopher Anton Amo. An extraordinarily interesting thinker in his own right, Amo advances a critique of Descartes’s assertion that the mind can sense, that is, that the immaterial mind can passively receive sensory information. In his dissertation, On the Apatheia of the Human Mind, or The Absence of Sensation and the Faculty of Sense in the Human Mind and Their Presence i
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