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It's worse than conjecture, it's contrary to the available evidence. The actual experience of consciousness clearly influences human behavior, otherwise we woul

• naasking 8y ago
  > The actual experience of consciousness clearly influences human behavior, otherwise we wouldn't talk about it. The argument that epiphenominalists put forth is that zombies can also talk "as if" they had consciousness, with all the same arguments that we put forth that they are conscious, that qualia are important, etc. The difference is that they simply aren't conscious, they are just acting out a play, and what they mean by consciousness is not the same thing as what we mean. If you think then that the concept of consciousness then becomes virtually vacuous, amounting merely to your first person, passive observation of an automoton that is your body moving through space and time, then you're not alone.