Indeed, epiphenomenalism can seemingly be easily disproved by its implication that if it were true, then we wouldn’t be able to talk about our consciousness. As I said in the essay, though, consciousness is that of which we can be most certain of, by its directly accessible nature, and I would rather think that we are living in a virtual world under an universe with other, alien physical laws, than that consciousness itself is not real.
Indeed, epiphenomenalism can seemingly be easily disproved by its implication that if it were true, then we wouldn’t be able to talk about our consciousness. As I said in the essay, though, consciousness is that of which we can be most certain of, by its directly accessible nature, and I would rather think that we are living in a virtual world under an universe with other, alien physical laws, than that consciousness itself is not real.