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The Philosopher’s Zombie
- shusaku 5y agoI really enjoyed this part > The zombie argument seems to belong to a class of arguments that Daniel Dennett calls ‘intuition pumps’. These are arguments – typically thought experiments – that lead the reader toward a certain appealing The whole essay takes this to heart and seems to just enjoy talking about the different perspectives instead nitpicking the argument
- flowtheorist 5y ago> The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness Neither can math by the way and by extension, computation. There is no such thing as a computational theory of consciousness unless consciousness is redefined to be whatever is done by a Turing machine.