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The Philosopher’s Zombie (aeon.co)
3 points by shusaku on Feb 5, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I really enjoyed this part

> The zombie argument seems to belong to a class of arguments that Daniel Dennett calls ‘intuition pumps’. These are arguments – typically thought experiments – that lead the reader toward a certain appealing

The whole essay takes this to heart and seems to just enjoy talking about the different perspectives instead nitpicking the argument


> The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness

Neither can math by the way and by extension, computation. There is no such thing as a computational theory of consciousness unless consciousness is redefined to be whatever is done by a Turing machine.




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