Posted: Oct 02, 2019 2:17 am
Thommo wrote:There's nothing there to debate. A P-zombie is behaviourally (and in all other physical respects) identical to a human. Anything that doesn't create, wouldn't exploit a business opportunity for a well observed preference among its peers (zombie or no) or cared only about survival would be trivially distinguishable from a human.
Refusing to engage with a premise is not a form of argument.
ETA: Note, I am neither saying that P-zombies are a philosophically useful concept nor that they are possible.
Don't be a dingbat. As you must know, the ONLY point of the zombie debate in philosophy is to undermine the notion of spirit/mind, rather to undermine the notion that 'we' are more than physical/chemical/robotic beings. It's basically a physicalist counter to idealism!!
Nevertheless, there is more to discuss here than our behavioural similarities. Hence, chocolate factories. For I put it to you that we cannot be equated to zombies in any form due to the FACT that we have created chocolate factories. Zombies would never have done this, even in an eternity!!!
And that's the point of the debate, because it puts the zombie argument to bed for an eternity!!!