double-aspect theory

noun

1

: a philosophical theory that takes mind and body or the mental and the material to be related aspects of a single more ultimate reality compare neutral monism

2

: a philosophical theory that holds the conscious processes and the neural processes in the brain to be aspects of the same real series of events compare interactionism, psychophysical parallelism

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