Psychophysical parallelism
PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY THAT MENTAL AND BODILY EVENTS OCCUR TOGETHER, WITHOUT ANY CAUSAL INTERACTION BETWEEN THEM
Parallelism (philosophy); Psycho-Physical Parallelism; Parallelism, Psycho-Physical; Psychophysical Parallelism; Psychophysical Problem; Psychophysical problem
In the philosophy of mind, psychophysical parallelism (or simply parallelism) is the theory that mental and bodily events are perfectly coordinated, without any causal interaction between them. As such, it affirms the correlation of mental and bodily events (since it accepts that when a mental event occurs, a corresponding physical effect occurs as well), but denies a direct cause and effect relation between mind and body.