[ExI] Where is Consciousness located?

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 22:37:46 UTC 2007


On Dec 23, 2007 9:14 PM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
> Stathis writes
> > there is no reason for evolution to favour a conscious
> > being over a philosophical zombie.
>
> In reading your other posts, I don't have any reason to
> think that I disagree with you on this subject, but the
> above is amusing.
> I think that there is ample reason for evolution to favor
> a conscious being over a philosophical zombie since
> the latter do not exist, and probably are impossible!

Or rather a philosophical zombie could not be consider as distinct
from any conscious being in any post-Kantian sense.

The very idea is not bad science, is bad philosophy.

Stefano Vaj



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