occasionalism

<philosophy of mind, ontology> a view popularised by Nicholas Malbranche whereby:

1) the mental and the material comprise two different kinds of substance;

2) neither has any direct causal effect on the other and;

3) all seeming interactions between the two are due to the continual intervention by God who brings about a change in one on the occasion of a change in the other.

See dualism, doctrine of pre-established harmony, parallelism

Chris Eliasmith - [Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind] Homepage

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