Discuss Leibniz’s proposed solution to the mind–body problem.
Leibniz believed that experience was necessary for the survival of body thoughts because it relies on the organization of thoughts that act appropriately by achieving the new ideas. Due to this reason, he rejected mind-body realistic duality. He also rejected Descartes’s interactionism because it is impossible to think about physical needs by causing mental operations. He does not favor with Malebranche’s occasionalism because he thinks that the mind and body was intangible to control by God’s intervention.
Hence, Leibniz proposed a psychophysical parallelism that was based on the concept of preestablished harmony. He believed that the majority of universe was created by God to attain the shape of perfect harmony. The monads make up the body’s mind and thoughts because God planned in such a way that they are identically related to each other.
Leibniz also propounded that the mind and the body are two separate entities that are considered as the two perfect and identical clocks. These have been set to the same time at the same moment but they will not interact to each other. All of the monads come under the category of the dualistic type of the mind-body relationship phenomenon.