Worldview: Epiphenomenalism (EPI)
Canonical source
00_Canonical/World Views/Epiphenomenalism.md- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/
Extracted theses (commitments)
- EPI-1 (Causality): Mental events are caused by brain events, but have no effects on physical events. E-038
- EPI-2 (Metaphysics/Causality): If physical events always have sufficient physical causes, then distinct (non-physical) mental causes would violate physical law. E-039
- EPI-3 (Method): Any account that keeps mental causes alongside sufficient physical causes risks redundancy and an epistemology where mental causes are never needed. E-040