Continuous reciprocal causation

A situation in which one system S continuously influences another system O while also being continuously influenced by O. Such relationships can occur at several scales:

• Between regions of the brain connected by multiple feedback and feedforward neural pathways.
• Between a dancing couple. The woman’s neural state affects her movements, her movements affect the man’s movements, and he in turn affects her, in a repeating cycle.
• Between jazz musicians improvising while influencing one another.