RE: Philosophical zombies
March 2, 2018 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2018 at 1:09 pm by polymath257.)
(March 2, 2018 at 12:53 pm)Hammy Wrote: No, because a p-zed is just a person who seems conscious from the outside but on the inside isn't. Having a physically identical brain isn't part of the definition of p-zed.
Actually, yes it is. According to David Chalmers, who was the one who invented the concept of p-zombies. Look at the video in the OP.
From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
"Zombies in philosophy are imaginary creatures designed to illuminate problems about consciousness and its relation to the physical world. Unlike those in films or witchcraft, they are exactly like us in all physical respects but without conscious experiences: by definition there is ‘nothing it is like’ to be a zombie. Yet zombies behave just like us, and some even spend a lot of time discussing consciousness."
Chalmers actually spends a lot of time on exactly this issue in his book.