Sentences with phrase «epiphenomena of»

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.

Or, if you prefer philosophical examples, consider the recent debates between proponents of a unified cognitive science, a science that would demonstrate mental events to be either strictly identical with physical events or epiphenomena of them — people like Daniel Dennett and Patricia Churchland — and those who think that there is a philosophically irreducible difference between the physical and the mental — that is, people like Thomas Nagel and John Searle.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Geoff — «Hickman and Carrington are epiphenomena, gasbags kept afloat by the eccentric beliefs of Guardian editor Ruisbridger.