Philosophical zombies

[The Grand Nudger]

This is the problem with solipsism vs. pragmatic assumption with regard to consciousness.  I believe I have an instinct, that if another person behaves in certain ways, I think they are also aware in the same way I am.  But looking at the behavior of infants, I'm not 100% even this is an instinct.

Solipsism is either a problem or it is not.  Either knowledge is accessible or it is not.  This has nothing..specifically, to do with whether or not you have an instinct.

For what it's worth, I'm sure we both have many.  They may not be what we think they are, they may not be what they report themselves as, but we could certainly tease some meaningful description of what an instinct was that could allow for a broad range of underlying fundamental truths...if ofc, there were such a thing and it were accessible.

I'd love to see how you calculated your percentage of knowledge. Got math?

Seriously though, I've always wondered how that;s quantified. Is the possibility that you don;t know 1 thing 1% uncertainty? Would the possibility of not knowing ten things be 10% uncertainty? Is it possible that one hundred unknown things are irrelevant to the matter at hand, and so would present 0% uncertainty if discovered? Could it be that not knowing 200 things could only amount to 1% uncertainty if they were discovered? Is there any knowledge you -would- considere 100%..and if there is not, does it then make sense to require that anything called knowledge possess an attribute that no thing called knowledge possesses? What sort of objection would it be to state that this knowledge a is entirely similar to this other piece of knowledge b in the percent of knowledge, but I find that reason to doubt it while affirming the other; a being some undefined x and b being the sun rising?

"Your kid is on the Android spectrum.  He shouldn't be in my precious daughter's class."

Yeah, can't see that one coming, hey?

"Meaningfully Conscious Persons Only" water fountains anyone?