I am glad that we can have this discussion, despite its difficulty. It is an intensely interesting subject, and I can't resist. For the poster below, thank you

I am glad that we can have this discussion, despite its difficulty. It is an intensely interesting subject, and I can't resist. For the poster below, thank you for bringing up the p-zombie argument. Indeed, with links to deconstructionism and physicalism, how can you even tell that another human is "human"? Can you prove that that individual is conscious, has subjective experience, and has a soul? Or is it, in fact, an assumption that all humans possess these things? This fundamental assumption is put to the test if a computer can perfectly simulate a human mind. Perhaps we will see that such notions are purely subjective constructs, like "cold". Though we may feel "cold", it is a sensation and an experience. That experience is not provable, even if we might get everyone to agree that -50C is "cold." All we can prove is the behavior of the brain, and assume that that behavior is linked to experience in general.