Epiphenomenalism

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the view in philosophy of mind  according to which physical  events have mental  effects, but mental events have no effects of any kind. In other words, the causal relations go only one way, from physical to mental. In recent times it is usually considered a type of dualism , because it postulates physical events but also non-physical mental events; but historically it has sometimes been thought a kind of monism , because of its sharp divergence from substance dualism .

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