[dekhn]

For those who are curious, consciousness is an epiphenomenon (an emergenty property of brains), while neural spikes are just physics.

See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_correlates_of_conscious...

[whatshisface]

I think it would be better to say something like, "paranoia is an epiphenomenon," when nobody knows what consciousness is.

[netizen-936824]

That isn't quite true

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

[dekhn]

No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism

[whatshisface]

Note that that title ends in "ism," like "Calvinism," or "Evangelicalism."

[posterboy]

hence epiphenomenal-ize? I don't thinkso.

Maybe it's more like epiphenomalis-m(a), where -is could be a genetive ending. I.e. the idea of epiphenomena.