psychophysical parallelism

noun

The theory that mental and bodily experiences occur in tandem with each other, but without any type of causal interaction.

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nounpsychophysical parallelism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe theory that mental and bodily experiences occur in tandem with each other, but without any type of causal interaction.
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