# 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:

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](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Brain.txt) 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.