epiphenomenon

It may be an epiphenomenon, but how it arises at all is the question of interest here.

The success of science in explaining everything else, however, means that practically we can treat the mind as an epiphenomenon.

Sometimes I wonder whether the entirety of what we call the mind is just an epiphenomenon that attempts to explain the workings of our neural network after the fact.

Its exact role is currently unclear: its likely both a secondary neurotoxic agent and an epiphenomenon.

This has major philosophical consequences, as it throws the whole consciousness-as-epiphenomenon theory out of the window.

Exactamondo, but isn't science merely an epiphenomenon of consciousness ?

My point was to understand what digital humanities is, as I put it, as an "epiphenomenon of the tectonic encounter between this world of computing, with its newly acquired 'Silicon Valley sex appeal,' and the world of ideas.

I don't think any scientist questions that the brain is integral to the experience of consciousness, but there are quite a few cogent scientists that challenge the mainstream proposition that consciousness is merely an epiphenomenon of the brain.

That is to say, I think our consciousness is not just a passive epiphenomenon carried along by the chemical events in our brains, but is an active agent forcing the molecular complexes to make choices between one quantum state and another.

The article is useful because it repeats and glorifies this shibboleth: "So America's great 21st century contribution to fomenting freedom abroad was not imposing it militarily but enabling it technologically, as an epiphenomenon of globalization.