ETA: a p-zombie is physically identical to a conscious human, but is still unconscious. (And we agree that makes no sense). A zombie is physically different from a conscious human, and as a result is unconscious—but is capable of all the behavior that humans are capable of.
Where the heck is this terminology coming from? As I learned it the ‘philosophical’ in “philosophical zombie” is just there to distinguish it from Romero-imagined brain-eating undead.
Yes, but we need some other term for “unconscious human-like entity”. I read one paper that used the terms “p-zombie” and “b-zombie”, where the p stood for “physical” as well as “philosophical” and the b stood for “behavioral”.
I’d rather call the first an n-zombie (meaning neurologically identical to a human). And, yeah, lets use b-zombie instead of zombie as all of these are varieties of philosophical zombie.
(But yes they’re just words. Thanks for clarifying.)
Where the heck is this terminology coming from? As I learned it the ‘philosophical’ in “philosophical zombie” is just there to distinguish it from Romero-imagined brain-eating undead.
Yes, but we need some other term for “unconscious human-like entity”. I read one paper that used the terms “p-zombie” and “b-zombie”, where the p stood for “physical” as well as “philosophical” and the b stood for “behavioral”.
I’d rather call the first an n-zombie (meaning neurologically identical to a human). And, yeah, lets use b-zombie instead of zombie as all of these are varieties of philosophical zombie.
(But yes they’re just words. Thanks for clarifying.)