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What does epiphenomenal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word epiphenomenal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.
  2. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to a mental process which occurs only as an incidental effect of electrical or chemical activity in the brain or nervous system.
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But I know enough to say with confidence that a trade deficit, though it may be epiphenomenal to other economic difficulties, cannot itself be deemed a problem.
System theory tries to explain such goals as epiphenomenal enhancements of a system.
If all causation is physical, then the epiphenomenal mental state is irrelevant to the act of causation.
Boys and girls may compete for parents' love, but their relationships to one another are, at best, epiphenomenal.
However there is a contradiction. I recall in my presentation saying that if there was an epiphenomenal moment in Canada where we said goodbye to high tech it was when we said goodbye to the Avro Arrow 35 years or so ago.
Not shockingly, artists think that their impulses and ideas are theirs alone, not the epiphenomenal output of historical processes.

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