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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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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" }
Citations (may not include all citations):
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How to Program an Infinite Abacus (context) - Lambek - 1961
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What Robots Can and Can't Be (context) - Bringsjord - 1992
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How Could We Tell If (context) - Bringsjord - 1995
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Consciousness by the Lights of Logic and Commonsense (context) - Bringsjord
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Why Henrik Ibsen Threatens ComputerGenerated Literature (context) - Bringsjord
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Dennett vs. Searle on Cognitive Science: It All Boils Down t.. (context) - Bringsjord - 1994
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