Epiphenomenalism
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title:
Epiphenomenalism
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Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem. It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but do not themselves influence physical events. According to epiphenomenalism, the appearance that subjective mental states influence physical events is an illusion, with consciousness being a by-product of physical states of the world. For instance, fear seem
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Position on the mind–body problem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism
date created:
2001-02-11T17:51:48Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T21:14:37Z
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