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Compatibilitism is the the theory that player characters (conscious people)and NPCs (philosophical zombies) are morally equivalent. That the inability to see so
by lupire 2y ago
Compatibilitism is the the theory that player characters (conscious people)and NPCs (philosophical zombies) are morally equivalent. That the inability to see someone's (even your own!) inner motivating state means that it's equivalent to free will in all practical senses.
In other words, "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not", and all the paradox that entails.
- card_zero 2y agoThe idea of philosophical zombies has something in common with solipsism, which is where everybody else is a zombie, and hey, maybe the universe is a simulation too. But the argument against this is that if the universe (and its population) is perfectly simulated, then it's exactly equivalent to real, and that means it is real - or the zombie is a real person, if we're just discussing one "perfectly simulated" person. Otherwise, if the simulation is just very very good, we're talking about something less relevant to arguments.
- naasking 2y ago> Compatibilitism is the the theory that player characters (conscious people)and NPCs (philosophical zombies) are morally equivalent. Compatibilism has literally nothing to say about consciousness. It's a completely orthogonal question. There's nothing incoherent about deterministic p-zombies or non-deterministic p-zombies, nor is there anything incoherent about deterministic conscious people or non-deterministic conscious people.