From this perspective, dreams serve no adaptive function at all but rather they're epiphenomena.
从这个角度来看,梦根本没有任何适应性功能,而是一种附带现象。
刀锋(下)
" Moralists try to persuade us that the sexual instinct hasn't got so very much to do with love. They're apt to speak of it as if it were an epiphenomenon" .
“道德家试图说服我们, 性本能与爱并没有太大关系。他们倾向于把它当作一种附带现象来谈论它” 。
耶鲁大学公开课:心理学导论
Consequently, theories of evolution which consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter are incompatible to the truth about man.
An epiphenomenon (plural: epiphenomena) is a secondary phenomenon that occurs alongside or in parallel to a primary phenomenon. The word has two senses, one that connotes known causation and one that connotes absence of causation or reservation of judgment about it.