[ExI] Bringing new life to dead matter

[Stefano Vaj]

On 9 June 2012 16:01, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> An idea can exist, but that doesn't mean that the thing it represents must
> be able to exist, or even make any sense (look at religion for abundant
> examples of that!).  As the phrase 'philosophical zombie' effectively means
> 'something which isn't what it is', or looked at another way, something
> which can't, even in principle, be distinguished from an identical thing
> that isn't one, I think it's safe to say that there are not, and never will
> be, such things as philosophical zombies.
>

This is however exactly... my point. To wonder upon whether something is
"conscious" in any other terms than by checking whether it exhibits a given
set of behavious that are relevant to the issue at hand (and/or which may
help me to hallucinate on it my internal statuses) does not really make
sense.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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