2010-03-28
Describing zombies
Hi Peter

In essence my objection boils down to saying that the zombie hypothesis is incoherent. And an incoherent hypothesis can't serve any purpose at all - in fact it doesn't even reach the level of a hypothesis.

So my advice is: Don't bother puzzling about it. It doesn't help us with the problem of consciousness. It's a red herring.

(I might add that for this reason I think the debate about whether or not zombies are "conceivable" misses the point. That risks suggesting that the idea is coherently formulated in the first place, which it isn't.) 

DA