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conscious automatism

conscious automatism In historical psychology and philosophy of mind, conscious automatism refers to a view in which bodily or physical events form an unbroken causal sequence, while conscious events accompany them without acting back on the body.

In historical psychology and philosophy of mind, conscious automatism refers to a view in which bodily or physical events form an unbroken causal sequence, while conscious events accompany them without acting back on the body. In the source, it is treated as closely related to psychophysical parallelism and near a guarded form of materialism.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Double Aspect Theory” (Double Aspect Theory).
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