{"id":96,"date":"2022-02-04T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T07:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/?p=96"},"modified":"2022-02-04T23:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T07:10:02","slug":"what-can-the-zombie-argument-say-about-human-consciousness-aeon-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/2022\/02\/04\/what-can-the-zombie-argument-say-about-human-consciousness-aeon-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"What can the zombie argument say about human consciousness? | Aeon Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"

My response to the philosophers’ zombie argument<\/a><\/em> is usually to do a kind of “reverse Turing test” – ie to challenge the philosopher to prove to himself (and to me) that I<\/strong> am not a zombie. If there was anything that had all<\/em> the characteristics and (in principle completely predictable – or at least explainable) behaviours and responses of a human, then anyone (other than the solipsistic philosopher himself) might be not “really” conscious. The alternative is that we all are conscious but that what we perceive as conscious experience is just the physical property of recording memories into a system with some kind of recall and reprocessing mechanism. And if I think about it too much, that’s pretty much what if “feels like” to me ….. Oops!!!(maybe I just failed the real TTest)<\/p>\n

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My response to the philosophers’ zombie argument is usually to do a kind of “reverse Turing test” – ie to challenge the philosopher to prove to himself (and to me) that I am not a zombie. If there was anything that had all the characteristics and (in principle completely predictable – or at least explainable) … Continue reading What can the zombie argument say about human consciousness? | Aeon Essays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}