<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 June 2012 16:01, Ben Zaiboc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bbenzai@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bbenzai@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br clear="all">
</blockquote><div><br>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. <br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>