“But I am so grateful Eli convinced me of the impossibility of Zombies”. What does that really mean? That he convinced of the impossibility of something physically identical to you, that behaves just like you, that claims to be conscious? Because that seems to be a silly construct well beyond our discernment technology (whether or not something is “physically identical” to you), and connectedly, not of much practical interest.
Or did he convince you what some people want to seem to believe, even if the evidence doesn’t extend that far: that something that would convince the smartest of us today that it’s conscious may not actually have your (or more to the point, my) subjective conscious experience, but may be in a real time equivalent to sleep walking and sleep talking or in a real time equivalent to an alcohol blackout -is impossible or unlikely to the point of near impossibility.
That zombie has been branded as the former thing, of little practical concern, rather than the latter thing, which I think would be of reasonable (and possibly near-term) practical concern to us is very annoying to me, because I think it would be a great term for the latter thing.
“But I am so grateful Eli convinced me of the impossibility of Zombies”. What does that really mean? That he convinced of the impossibility of something physically identical to you, that behaves just like you, that claims to be conscious? Because that seems to be a silly construct well beyond our discernment technology (whether or not something is “physically identical” to you), and connectedly, not of much practical interest.
Or did he convince you what some people want to seem to believe, even if the evidence doesn’t extend that far: that something that would convince the smartest of us today that it’s conscious may not actually have your (or more to the point, my) subjective conscious experience, but may be in a real time equivalent to sleep walking and sleep talking or in a real time equivalent to an alcohol blackout -is impossible or unlikely to the point of near impossibility.
That zombie has been branded as the former thing, of little practical concern, rather than the latter thing, which I think would be of reasonable (and possibly near-term) practical concern to us is very annoying to me, because I think it would be a great term for the latter thing.