epiphenomena

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Our private selves are like those bubbles -- epiphenomena, as Clifford, I believe, ingeniously called them; their destinies weigh nothing and determine nothing in the world's irremediable currents of events.

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  • "History is not a series of epiphenomena," he had lectured me. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
  • There are indeed common features to peoples 'accounts of their internal experiences with depression, and they in turn suggest that internal experiences are not only not completely idiosyncratic but that internal experiences are not simply epiphenomena either. —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • Political events are mere epiphenomena - random manifestations of deep social forces. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • Still Life to represent lives disrupted by social forces without reducing those lives to mere epiphenomena of those larger shifts. —  GreenCine Daily
  • When qualitatively similar spatial patterns arise from purely physical mechanisms, are these patterns in organisms biologically significant, or are they simply epiphenomena that are likely characteristics of any set of interacting autonomous individuals? —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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