La solución leibniziana al problema de la relación cuerpo-alma desde una perspectiva actual

The mind-body problem of today differs from that of the 17th century, as it is not so much discussed as an ontological one, but as a question of the empirical sciences—at best of epistemology. It goes back to Descartes, and found its Leibnizian solution by the pre-established harmony between Monads as substances, and their bodies as phenomena—namely, corporeal substances—warranted ‘top down’ by God’s selection of the world. This needs presumptions that are analysed here, in order to indicate that modern proposals for a solution via complex evolutionary processes depend on a way that is ‘bottom up’, yet by introducing comparable conjectures.