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Post by Padre Romero on May 6, 2007 14:38:52 GMT -5
A lot of my writing involves Qualia....they're kind of hard to explain...basically, they're things you can have a perfectly normal conversation with someone about, but be talking about two totally different things, they are irreducable and utterly nonquantifiable...your perception of the color green is a qualia...this lead me to this lovely website plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/ |
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Post by Hec Scrivener on May 6, 2007 16:56:25 GMT -5
By my lights, there's not a lot that can be said in defense of the zombie argument. It's inherently circular: it's used as an objection to monism, but in order even to admit that zombies are conceivable, you already have to reject monism. In short, if someone says, "Zombies are possible," you don't even have to get into an argument about equivocation between conceivability and possibility; you can simply say, "No, they aren't; to process information in such a manner as would be necessary for a convincing zombie is to be conscious," and get on with your life.
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Post by Padre Romero on May 6, 2007 21:08:31 GMT -5
Definitely my take on it...I've brought it up in my science fiction class...
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Post by zombiemcallen on May 18, 2007 0:05:53 GMT -5
you already have to reject monism. I've always prefered Onanism to monism. |
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Post by Syd 3.0 on May 25, 2007 17:55:22 GMT -5
I prefer absurdism.
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