- psychophysical parallelism
- noun Date: 1894 parallelism 4
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Psychophysical parallelism — Psychophysical parallelism, in psychology, is the theory that the conscious and nervous processes vary concomitantly whether or not there be any causal connection between them; [web cite|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11474a.htm|title=Psycho … Wikipedia
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