 Despite this clear occasionalist stance toward physical objects, Berkeley, as has been pointed out, firmly maintains that spirits, both infinite and finite, are causally active. The affirmation of the causal efficacy of finite spirits or minds like us raises questions about consistency, since the “conservation is but continuous creation” principle, which seems to be doing the work in Berkeley’s occasionalist claims in De Motu, is typically thought to be applicable universally, without discriminating between minds and bodies.  [11]