epiphenomenal

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Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.Huettel, Function Magnetic Imaging, 2004

Of or pertaining to a mental process which occurs only as an incidental effect of electrical or chemical activity in the brain or nervous system

If qualia are epiphenomenal in the standard philosophical sense, their occurrence can't explain the way things happen (in the material world) since, by definition, things would happen exactly the same without them.

Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest

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