conscious automatism
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conscious automatism
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From conscious + automatism. Coined by physician and author w: in 1876.
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Synonym of epiphenomenalism
[…] and in that case even proud man's consciousness is no more a cause of his actions than the flash is the cause of the explosion of which it is a concomitant.
A strange conclusion seems to come from this theory of Conscious Automatism, however the “Automatists” themselves may be able to evade it.
Similar: epiphenomenalism
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