RE: Mindfulness or Mindlessness?
September 7, 2021 at 9:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2021 at 9:54 pm by LadyForCamus.)
Trying to absorb all this. (I love it when you guys dig in deep, btw). But I am in the same boat as Em; takes me days to research and process what you guys bang out in minutes!
With regard to the p-zombie argument; maybe I don’t understand it properly, but it seems to me to beg the question. “Imagine a being, or a world of beings that behave exactly as if they’re conscious, but they’re not.” What is the justification for assuming that’s a coherent or logically possible scenario in the first place? If a zombie told me it was conscious, what reason would I have for not accepting that as true, except for the sake of making an argument against monism? Am I making any sense?
With regard to the p-zombie argument; maybe I don’t understand it properly, but it seems to me to beg the question. “Imagine a being, or a world of beings that behave exactly as if they’re conscious, but they’re not.” What is the justification for assuming that’s a coherent or logically possible scenario in the first place? If a zombie told me it was conscious, what reason would I have for not accepting that as true, except for the sake of making an argument against monism? Am I making any sense?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.