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What does epiphenomenalism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) 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.
  2. (philosophy) Such a doctrine, as advanced by a particular thinker or school of thought.
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The argument that epiphenomenalism is self-stultifying in the way just described rests on the premise that knowledge of a mental event requires causation by that mental event.
Bergson however has more to assert than merely the inadequacy and falsity of Parallelism or epiphenomenalism.
The resulting view, wherein consciousness is distinct from material reality but unnecessary to it, is called epiphenomenalism.
Both current physics and current biology are heavy with latent epiphenomenalism.
Epiphenomenalism, which leaves the mind an impotent bystander in a world of the physical?
Many philosophers worry that the classical computational theory of mind engenders epiphenomenalism.

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