b) This sounds right but also I think the comment about p-zombies is generating some confusion and conveying an idea I did not intend. I meant the p-zombie comment to be illustrative, and it’s not actually a hinge of the argument.
c) Again, maybe I’m not conveying what I meant to when making passing reference to p-zombies, because in my mind the point of a p-zombie here is that it’s equivalent to a thing with a mind for some set of observations we make but doesn’t function in the same way so that if we may later be surprised when p-zombie and mind diverge. I suspect some of the confusion is that I’m operating under the assumption that p-zombies are possible but have weird computational limits (the integrated information theory paper has a section explaining this idea).
a) Yep, I agree.
b) This sounds right but also I think the comment about p-zombies is generating some confusion and conveying an idea I did not intend. I meant the p-zombie comment to be illustrative, and it’s not actually a hinge of the argument.
c) Again, maybe I’m not conveying what I meant to when making passing reference to p-zombies, because in my mind the point of a p-zombie here is that it’s equivalent to a thing with a mind for some set of observations we make but doesn’t function in the same way so that if we may later be surprised when p-zombie and mind diverge. I suspect some of the confusion is that I’m operating under the assumption that p-zombies are possible but have weird computational limits (the integrated information theory paper has a section explaining this idea).