{"id":32590,"date":"2022-09-07T17:33:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32590"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:33:58","slug":"epiphenomenalism-one-of-philosophys-most-disturbing-ideas-big-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/09\/07\/epiphenomenalism-one-of-philosophys-most-disturbing-ideas-big-think.html","title":{"rendered":"Epiphenomenalism: One of philosophy&#8217;s most disturbing ideas &#8211; Big Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/thinking\/epiphenomenalism-mind-body-problem-dualism\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AdobeStock_143522207.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Epiphenomenalism is the idea that our conscious minds serve no role in affecting the physical world. On the contrary, our thoughts are a causally irrelevant byproduct of physical processes that are occurring inside of our brains. According to epiphenomenalism, we are like children pretending to drive a car \u2014 it can be great fun, but we are really not in charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/thinking\/epiphenomenalism-mind-body-problem-dualism\/\">Epiphenomenalism: One of philosophy&#8217;s most disturbing ideas &#8211; Big Think<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epiphenomenalism is the idea that our conscious minds serve no role in affecting the physical world. On the contrary, our thoughts are a causally irrelevant byproduct of physical processes that are occurring inside of our brains. According to epiphenomenalism, we are like children pretending to drive a car \u2014 it can be great fun, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AdobeStock_143522207.jpg?fit=480%2C270&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8tE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32592,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590\/revisions\/32592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}