Associations to the word «Epiphenomenal»

Wiktionary

EPIPHENOMENAL, adjective. Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.
EPIPHENOMENAL, adjective. (philosophy) (psychology) Of or pertaining to a mental process which occurs only as an incidental effect of electrical or chemical activity in the brain or nervous system.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin