Meanings (ES + gloss)
epifenómeno
A mental process or state that is an incidental by-product of physiological events in the brain or nervous system.
According to this hypothesis, mind is a ‘collateral product’ of the physical, an ‘epiphænomenon’ accompanying, but never causally affecting, the physical series of phænomena.
It is a necessary corollary of the view here advanced that in instinct as such consciousness is a mere epiphenomenon—a by-product, with no bearing whatever on the performance of th…