parallelism

parallelism
1. The state of being structurally parallel. 2. In psychology, the mind-body doctrine that for every conscious process there is a corresponding or parallel organic process, without asserting a causal interrelation between the two. [para- + G. allelon, of one another, fr. allos, other]

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par·al·lel·ism 'par-ə-.lel-.iz-əm, -ləl- n a philosophical or psychological doctrine that there is a one-to-one correspondence between events in the mind and events in the brain but that the two sets of events exist without interacting in a causal way called also psychophysical parallelism

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