| Both current physics and current biology are heavy with latent epiphenomenalism. |
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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. |
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| But epiphenomenalism denies such a causal connection. |
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| The resulting view, wherein consciousness is distinct from material reality but unnecessary to it, is called epiphenomenalism. |
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| Many philosophers worry that the classical computational theory of mind engenders epiphenomenalism. |
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| Third, there is nomological dualism, which is also called parallelism and epiphenomenalism. |
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| Rey is worried about conundra involving epiphenomenalism, zombies and such, and to avoid them he wants to reduce phenomenal consciousness to the computational. |
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| Epiphenomenalism, which leaves the mind an impotent bystander in a world of the physical? |
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