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A philosophical zombie (or "p-zombie") is a being in a thought experiment in the philosophy of mind that is physically identical to a normal human being but does not have conscious experience. [ 1 ] For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object, it would not feel any pain, but it would react exactly the way any conscious ...
They proceed to attack the revised argument by denying the premise that if zombies must have third-person phenomenal concepts, then phenomenal concepts cannot account for the explanatory gap. In particular, they suggest that, pace Chalmers, people and zombies would have the same epistemic situation even though the contents of their situations ...
The philosophers Glenn Carruthers and Elizabeth Schier said in 2012 that the main arguments for the existence of a hard problem—philosophical zombies, Mary's room, and Nagel's bats—are only persuasive if one already assumes that "consciousness must be independent of the structure and function of mental states, i.e. that there is a hard ...
You might've thought zombies were the creation of science fiction writers, and while that may be true for human zombies, animals are a whole other story. ... 10 Real-Life 'Zombie' Animals.
The ancient Greek δείκνυμι, deiknymi, 'thought experiment', "was the most ancient pattern of mathematical proof", and existed before Euclidean mathematics, [7] where the emphasis was on the conceptual, rather than on the experimental part of a thought experiment.
Chalmers accepted a part-time professorship at the philosophy department of New York University in 2009, becoming a full-time professor in 2014. [18] In 2013, Chalmers was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. [5] He is an editor on topics in the philosophy of mind for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [19]
Solipsism (/ ˈ s ɒ l ɪ p s ɪ z əm / ⓘ SOLL-ip-siz-əm; from Latin solus 'alone' and ipse 'self') [1] is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
Robert Kirk (born 1933) [1] is a British philosopher. He is emeritus professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.. Kirk is best known for his work on philosophical zombies—putatively unconscious beings physically and behaviourally identical to human beings.