Bruno Marchal skrev:
> For example, a zombie is just some entity which looks like you and me,
> i.e. has all the appearance of a human, and who has no consciousness.
> There is no *need* to make them a priori fundamentally material. Now a
> materialist can and even should interpret this as a zombie in the
> sense of Dennett, but the definition continues to make sense for a non
> materialist, who for example just consider itself that physics is
> implemented or emerge from something else. It shows that the notion of
> zombie does not depend on the materialist or non materialist belief. A
> zombie is just something NON conscious despite it has all the
> appearance of a human like you and me (and thus is material for a
> materialist, and immaterial for an immaterialist).
>
If you want a concrete example of a zombie, you can just think of me. I
am an entity that have all the appearance of a human, but I have no
consciousness...
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Torgny Tholerus
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Received on Fri Nov 14 2008 - 12:43:43 PST