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Re:The Philosopher’s Zombie by shusaku on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:19PM (#30217352)
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 (#30218136)
> 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.