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    The mind and body are in intimate interaction despite the... — Carmelics
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    The mind and body are in intimate interaction despite their formal metaphysical distinction

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    • 1.A sensible rapture begins with actual external perception in a part of the body
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    • 2.An emotion arises in the brain itself
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    • 3.In either case, the feeling of pleasure arranges the fibers of the brain into an appropriate tone without fatiguing them
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    • 1.Descartes demonstrated that res cogitans and res extensa are categorically distinct substances sharing no common causal medium.
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    • 2.Causal interaction between substances requires a shared ontological genus, which mind and body, by formal metaphysical distinction, cannot possess.
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    • 3.The pineal gland 'solution' exposed the incoherence of interactionism, showing that positing a neural locus merely relocates rather than resolves the explanatory gap.
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    • 1.Leibniz's pre-established harmony account shows that apparent mind-body coordination requires no genuine causal interaction whatsoever.
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    • 2.The psychophysical parallelism described in the supporting argument is fully explicable as synchronized but causally isolated series, making 'intimate interaction' an inference unsupported by phenomenology alone.
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    He distinguishes between a “sensible rapture” (sinnliche Wollust) and an emotion because the former begins in a part of a body, that is, with an actual external perception, while the latter “arises in the brain itself,” but in either case the feeling of the pleasure “arrange[s] the fibers of the brain into an appropriate tone, employing them without fatiguing them,” and then “The brain communicates this harmonious tension to nerves of the other parts of the body and the body becomes comfortable”
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    The pineal gland 'solution' exposed the incoherence of interactionism, showing t...
    The psychophysical parallelism described in the supporting argument is fully exp...
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