Sentences with phrase «as epiphenomena»

The assumption of interactionism has the advantage that it explains why increasingly complicated psychic phenomena evolved and why they must not be regarded as epiphenomena.

But these are regarded as epiphenomena, as the rattling of the train is to the motion of the train, or else phenomena equated with chemical and electrical activities in the brain.

Not exact matches

In the former case we are required to believe something which is eminently sensible but which can not be scientifically confirmed; in the second we are required to believe in a source of value added to or injected into a natural process as complexity develops, which we are unable to understand — either this, or we have to regard values as pure epiphenomena.

So here was a biologist who accepted mind and feelings and sentience as real and not just epiphenomena.

Dawkins also shows a profound misunderstanding of what «intelligence» means, most probably because of his presumption that consciousness and «mind» are epiphenomena of complex organic structures such as the brain.

These things are not by - products, epiphenomena, or projections, as no small number of capitalist as well as socialist authors today think.

Now researchers are finding additional mutated metabolic enzymes that can behave as oncogenes, says Chi Dang, a medical oncologist and cancer biologist who directs the Abramson Cancer Center, and such discoveries are helping convince skeptics that alterations in metabolism are not mere «epiphenomena» or side effects.