Sentences with word «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.

But this means that the psychic phenomena were only epiphenomena, apparently not necessary for the described action.

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.

Is it consistent with sound logic to maintain that these are mere epiphenomena fully explicable in terms of physics and chemistry?

Athlete and scholar alike make a shambles of their practice when they attempt to do both, and those who teach students to focus on epiphenomena rather than on obedience to the texts drag others with them into the abyss of consumerism.

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.

One corollary of this account is a cosmology in which all «nature» is alive; aim, feeling, life are not accidental epiphenomena, but built into the very foundation of things.

Such statistical changes are epiphenomena which sometimes accompany mediation but, in general, fail to capture the causal relationships that mediation analysis aims to quantify.

But what if the decline of etiquette is one of the most serious social problems, from which other serious social problems devolve merely as epiphenomena?

And so the latter are relegated to the status of «epiphenomena.»

As for mind, purposes, and feelings — they are at most regarded as epiphenomena, which means they are seen as side - effects, not causes.

Scientific materialists look upon life and mind as «epiphenomena,» that is, as secondary and derivative rather than «really real» in themselves.

In reductionism, lower levels of reality determine completely the higher levels; thus higher levels are «epiphenomena».

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

For the most part they regard mind and purpose as epiphenomena, which means they are recognized as effects only and not as causes and so are not studied as causes.

Because «human kinds» are epiphenomena, results of unspoken contracts between fickle human minds and changeful reality, we can rise above them.

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.