More than investigating epiphenomenalism, I'd suggest you read into the unity of mind ( much scarier and more compelling stuff, IMHO ).
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Fear seems to make the heart beat faster; though, according to epiphenomenalism, the state of the nervous system causes the heart to beat faster.
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On the other hand, if we wish to retain the principle of the anomalism of the mental then we must reject causal efficacy and embrace epiphenomenalism.
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3 ) Epiphenomenalism is a doctrine first formulated by Thomas Henry Huxley . [ 32 ] It consists in the view that mental phenomena are causally ineffectual.
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Other models such as epiphenomenalism argue that conscious will is an illusion, and that consciousness is a by-product of physical states of the world.
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This line of inquiry leads to epiphenomenalism, which considers intention to be an afterthought, a story the brain tells itself to describe the actions of the body.
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Because mental events are a kind of overflow that cannot cause anything physical, yet have non-physical properties, epiphenomenalism is viewed as a form of property dualism.
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In favor of interactionism, Celia Green ( 2003 ) argues that epiphenomenalism does not even provide a satisfactory out from the problem of interaction posed by substance dualism.
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A similar defense comes from Australian philosopher Frank Jackson ( born 1943 ) who revived the theory of epiphenomenalism which argues that mental states do not play a role in physical states.
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In the early 1900s eliminativism or mental fictionalism, positions that deny that inner mental phenomena exist, a behaviorist was able to adopt epiphenomenalism in order to allow for the existence of mind.
