RE: Philosophical zombies
March 3, 2018 at 5:37 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2018 at 5:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It would, strongly. The reason that p zombies are an amusing proposition is that they posit something so subtle that it flies right under the radar. That however that thing might be aware of itself (as, for example..any common machine with self referential data collection - like a machine that knows it's supposed to respond with some relevant information about some part of it's system to a call of "how are you"), it would not be the same, it would be meaningfully different, from us.
The proposition is that the p zombie would be capable of all of our behavior, a carbon copy..with one difference. One answer to that is that it couldn;t, in fact, be a behavioral carbon copy to us without possessing that "x" because that "x" is what drives those behaviors. We can posit that it need not be, and that's the p-zombie prop..but..in humans, it is, and so a mechanically equavalent human would be a functionally equivalent human. Any explanation for some difference would hide many other different things than the sole difference referenced.
P zombies are a congnitive trap, lol.
The proposition is that the p zombie would be capable of all of our behavior, a carbon copy..with one difference. One answer to that is that it couldn;t, in fact, be a behavioral carbon copy to us without possessing that "x" because that "x" is what drives those behaviors. We can posit that it need not be, and that's the p-zombie prop..but..in humans, it is, and so a mechanically equavalent human would be a functionally equivalent human. Any explanation for some difference would hide many other different things than the sole difference referenced.
P zombies are a congnitive trap, lol.
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