epiphenomenalism
Meanings
noun
- The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
- Such a doctrine, as advanced by a particular thinker or school of thought.
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Etymology
From epiphenomenal + -ism.
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