There is probably some truth in the mind being a result of social interaction. If you read about feral children, a common theme seems to be that those children

There is probably some truth in the mind being a result of social interaction. If you read about feral children, a common theme seems to be that those children end up somewhat like animals lacking essential human characteristics. I'd say that such a 'philosophical' zombie would indeed be conscious. In fact, I'd call it human. I don't think those two are compatible. A philosophical zombie lacks consciousness, sentience, and qualia, a human does not. And I don't see why this collection of gears should lack any of them, why it should be a philosophical zombie. Those gear should feel pain, and not in the sense that the positions of some of those gears indicate that there is pain, like a bit in a computer memory, but just like you and me experience pain. And that seems, at least to me, a gigantic leap. I can perfectly understand how you could evaluate different sensor inputs, calculate a pain level, and store it somewhere in memory. And then you could easily create reactions, try to get away from whatever causes you pain, you could make the robot scream. But that seems nothing like how I experience pain, I really feel it. Humans don't even need external sources of pain, we can experience pain from memories and thoughts alone. Admittedly that may be an artificial distinction, one could certainly imagine a kind of internal sensor input that does not sense external stimuli but the state of other parts of your brain. But all that doesn't help, at least me, at all understanding why I can feel pain and what it means to feel pain in the first place. I can not make the jump from a physical and inanimate picture of a human made out of particles to how it feels to be a human. I can not understand how a collection of gears could possibly feel pain. And when I say not understand I mean it in the most powerful way. It's not that I can not understand the details, it's not that I don't understand anything about it but know how I could learn about it, it's much worse, I can not even imagine how I could possibly try to understand it.