Me thinking through your argument requires the carbon-based (loosely) probabilistic-reasoning-system who goes by the pseudonym “Minibear Rex” on the internet to predict the conclusions drawn by a non-probabilistic reasoning being. This is rather difficult to do, and rather easy to screw up somewhere in the chain of inferences. It is also not necessary to formulate the chief argument against Zombies.
I don’t need to postulate an omnipotent being. All I need to do is make the observation that my fellow humans, when the topic arises, talk about their own sense of internal awareness, their own subconscious experiences of thoughts and feelings, etc. Qualia, in other words. It seems to me rather unlikely that they would do so if they did not, in fact, possess qualia, and rather likely that they would do so if they did. Therefore, this is strong Bayesian evidence against the existence of zombies.
Me thinking through your argument requires the carbon-based (loosely) probabilistic-reasoning-system who goes by the pseudonym “Minibear Rex” on the internet to predict the conclusions drawn by a non-probabilistic reasoning being. This is rather difficult to do, and rather easy to screw up somewhere in the chain of inferences. It is also not necessary to formulate the chief argument against Zombies.
I don’t need to postulate an omnipotent being. All I need to do is make the observation that my fellow humans, when the topic arises, talk about their own sense of internal awareness, their own subconscious experiences of thoughts and feelings, etc. Qualia, in other words. It seems to me rather unlikely that they would do so if they did not, in fact, possess qualia, and rather likely that they would do so if they did. Therefore, this is strong Bayesian evidence against the existence of zombies.