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Epiphenomenon
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Epiphenomenon 

an adjunct to a phenomenon; a secondary phenomenon that accompanies other phenomena but has no influence on them. Some adherents of voluntarism, such as E. von Hartmann and F. Nietzsche, regarded consciousness as an epiphenomenon—an implement of the unconscious world will—while several natural-science materialists, including T. Huxley, viewed it as a consequence of the activity of the higher nervous system.
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As such, the dismissal of psychological events as epiphenomena is not attributable to their relational character per se but instead is owing to the fact that the things participating in the relations investigated in other sciences are relatively more concrete.
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