Re:The Philosopher’s Zombie
by shusaku on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:19PM
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I 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
Re:The Philosopher’s Zombie
by flowtheorist on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:55AM
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> 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.
> 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
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.