Editing Mind–body dualism (section)

===Parallelism===
{{Main|Psychophysical parallelism}}

Psychophysical parallelism is a very unusual view about the interaction between mental and physical events which was most prominently, and perhaps ''only'' truly, advocated by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz]]. Like Malebranche and others before him, Leibniz recognized the weaknesses of Descartes' account of causal interaction taking place in a physical location in the brain. Malebranche decided that such a material basis of interaction between material and immaterial was impossible and therefore formulated his doctrine of [[occasionalism]], stating that the interactions were really caused by the intervention of God on each individual occasion. Leibniz's idea is that God has created a [[pre-established harmony]] such that it only seems ''as if'' physical and mental events cause, and are caused by, one another. In reality, mental causes only have mental effects and physical causes only have physical effects. Hence, the term ''parallelism'' is used to describe this view.<ref name="Rob" />