epiphenomenal

Critics of the theory argue that performance expectations could be "epiphenomenal," and do not serve as a mediator.

These more recent versions, however, maintain that only the subjective, qualitative aspects of mental states are epiphenomenal.

As per Nietzsche, negation becomes secondary and epiphenomenal in relation to this primary force.

These results indicate the activation in mirror neuron related areas are unlikely to be just epiphenomenal.

Disruption in school is epiphenomenal and dysfunctional.

Structure and superstructure are not considered "insignificant, epiphenomenal reflexes of infrastructural forces".

It is generally not obvious whether an emergent theory of mind embraces mental causation or must be considered epiphenomenal.

He had been able to see beyond the epiphenomenal shopper's malaise to the enduring human capacity for self-indulgence.

First Jackson argued that qualia are epiphenomenal: not causally efficacious with respect to the physical world.

Despite the causal and explanatory gap between the phenomena on different levels, Alexander held that emergent qualities were not epiphenomenal.

Racism is not epiphenomenal.

The lone ammonium molecule problem provides a problem for Jackson's solution to epiphenomenal ectoplasm.

In general, postmodernism seeks meaning by looking at the underlying structures that create or impose meaning, rather than the epiphenomenal appearances of the world.

This epiphenomenal association between consonant letters and vowel sounds was then seized upon and used in words without historic diphthongs.

It did not directly attack the methodology or results of decipherment, but instead contended that the ancient Maya texts had indeed been read but were "epiphenomenal".

But it was known to be epiphenomenal: it coalesced unpredictably out of near-infinite, infinitesmal interactions, not from the operations of mere code.

Such a grandiose claim represents a ludicrous case of the tail wagging the dog, or the invalid elevation of a small and epiphenomenal consequence into a major and controlling cause.

Omi and Winant identify reductionist theories of race that identify race as epiphenomenal rather than durable as the chief competing theories of racial dynamics in contemporary sociology.

Because the physical world is causally closed - for every physical event there is only a physical cause - the mental attributes argued for by panpsychists would have to be epiphenomenal.

Not some yapping AI designed to manage traffic lights or zoning complaints or currency markets, but the epiphenomenal chimera that was well beyond the sum total of all these petty transactions.

For Marx scientific and true knowledge is 'in accordance with the dialectical understanding of history' and ideological knowledge 'an epiphenomenal expression of the relation of material forces in a given economic arrangement'.

If supervenience physicalism is true, then such a world could not exist because a physical duplicate of the actual world (the world that is known to exist) could not possess an epiphenomenal ectoplasm.

This article and many of the responses reminds me that biology isn't physics and must walk the line between arguments about irreducible complexity (order is magical) and reductio ad absurdum (everything that's not a gene is epiphenomenal).

I understand your point that the evidence of supposed progress, the increasing right skew of life's bell curve, is only an epiphenomenal tail that cannot wag the entire dog梐nd that life's full house has never moved from its modal position.

Michael Coe in opposition to this idea described "epiphenomenal" as "a ten penny word meaning that Maya writing is only of marginal application since it is secondary to those more primary institutions-economics and society-so well studied by the dirt archaeologists."