单项选择题
Though agreeing with Descartes that consciousness and extension are qualitatively distinct, Spinoza’s dual-aspect theory denied that consciousness and extension are inherent characteristics of two finite substances, treating Line them instead as attributes of the infinite substance of a transcendent intelligence. While mental occurrences can dictate only other mental occurrences and physical motions can determine only other physical motions,mind and body exist in pre-established coordination, since the same self-consistent intelligence establishes affinities and connections within both classes.Another alternative, psychophysical parallelism, retains both the dualism of mind and body and the notion of a regular correlation between mental and physical events, but avoids any assumption of causal mind-body connection,direct or indirect. Psychophysical parallelism eschews interactionism, stating that mental and physical could not possibly affect one another, and also rejects occasionalism and dual-aspect theory on the grounds that no third entity,including a transcendent intelligence, could be responsible for such vastly different effects.Parallelists accept only pure correlations, not causation, between mental and physical events.
(A) Through a relationship of correlation, mental occurrences can only determine other mental occurrences.
(B) Through a relationship of causation, physical occurrences can only determine other physical occurrences.
(C) Mind and body exist in pre-established coordination provided by a third entity, transcendent intelligence.
(D) Consciousness and extension, as separate finite qualities, may be described as distinct.
(E) One of the necessary attributes of any divine essence is its infinitude.