Comment by tim333
5 days ago
I think we're looking at different definitions of philosophical zombie. I was going with the Wikipedia article's
>For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object, it would not feel any pain
5 days ago
I think we're looking at different definitions of philosophical zombie. I was going with the Wikipedia article's
>For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object, it would not feel any pain
You are omitting the second part:
"but it would react exactly the way any conscious human would"
So the pain would be registered, and reacted to.
The only difference is in how the world "feel" is interpreted.
For Chalmers, the difference between a "zombie" and a "regular human", according to Chalmers, is that for the "zombie" is just "meat reacting to things". The "human" on the other hand is "meat somehow connected to something outside of the meat called consciousness that is the only thing that really feels".
I (and the author of the article) disagree. Consciousness can be "just meat". No need to add an "external thing".