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Abstract: Moody is right that the doctrine of conscious inessentialism (CI) is false. Unfortunately, his zombie-based argument against (CI), once made sufficiently clear to evaluate, is revealed as nothing but legerdemain. The fact is, though Moody has---for reasons I explain---convinced himself otherwise, certain zombies are impenetrable: that they are zombies, and not conscious beings like us, is something beyond the capacity of humans to divine. 1 Moody's Argument Moody's argument is imaginative, but ... (Update)
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...for what it is: not a serious philosophical idea but a preposterous and ignoble relic of ancient prejudices. 26] 405 6) I have elsewhere [12] discussed the penetrability of zombies, where, put roughly, the idea is that zombies are penetrated if they are unmasked as...
.... and perhaps any implemented computer program (and therefore no doubt Pollock s oscar and Bringsjord and Ferrucci s brutus (Bringsjord Ferrucci 2000)) would seem to qualify. It follows that a zombie would be A conscious. In (Bringsjord 1997c) Bringsjord argues that because...
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Bringsjord, S. (1995) "In Defense of Impenetrable Zombies," Journal of Consciousness Studies 2.4: 348-351. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bringsjord95defense.html More
@misc{ bringsjord95defense,
author = "S. Bringsjord",
title = "In Defense of Impenetrable Zombies",
text = "Bringsjord, S. (1995) In Defense of Impenetrable Zombies, Journal of Consciousness
Studies 2.4: 348-351.",
year = "1995",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bringsjord95defense.html" }
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