Associations to the word «Epiphenomenalism»

Wiktionary

EPIPHENOMENALISM, noun. (philosophy) (psychology) (uncountable) 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.
EPIPHENOMENALISM, noun. (philosophy) (psychology) (countable) Such a doctrine, as advanced by a particular thinker or school of thought.

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche