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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope