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Epiphenomenalism

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Philosophical position that consciousness is a byproduct with no causal power, arrived at by computer science majors through mathematical reductionism

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"If you take up the latter, there is no transcendent reality to math, so there is no transcendent reality to 'you'; and although you can translate your thoughts into mathematics, you're really just using arithmetic to describe biology, and you're left with determinism, epiphenomenalism, and a world w"
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