The Mind-Body Problem is that the mind and body are not the same and they are two different substances. It is like the mind and body’s involvement exists in separate mental and physical realms. Descartes argued that the body is something that exists in the physical realm, where the mind is nonphysical and it is in the mental realm. He mentioned that the body works through senses while the mind functions by reasoning and thinking because reason cannot …show more content…
Nicolas Malebranche explained the problem of Mind-Body in Occasionalism. In Occasionalism God is the only causal agent and the creatures provide the occasion for the divine action. This was the view that God is the only agent of cause. Humans and other creatures would provide the occasion for divine action. While Baruch Spinoza addressed the problem of Mind-Body in God or Nature that God is the infinity and he does exist, and he is the only substance of the universe and the rest is from God. He argued that our mind is God and our body is the physical action of God. He mentioned in The Human Being that from many aspects of God, we only have two that are mind and body and our physical and mental events are the two aspects of God that we have access to. On the other hand, Leibniz addresses the problem of Mind-Body in the Matter and Thought and Denial of Mind-Body Interaction, Assertion of Preestablished Harmony. There he explains the union of soul and body which is, the soul is a created substance where the body is a composite of created substances. He explains the excellence of human minds and that God considers them preferable to other creatures. That is because minds express God rather than the world, but that the other substances express the world rather than …show more content…
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