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    It is not the case that The mind and body are in intimate interaction despite their formal metaphysical distinction

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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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    • 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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