2010-05-08
Describing zombies
RE: "Their creator states that zombies do not have experiences. That's good enough for me. We all know perfectly well what an experience is or, at least, what it is like to have one"

Let's leave aside the major philosophical difficulty which is: Can we be sure that human "experience" does not already and always have a "consciousness" component? (which would put us in a vicious circle) .

If as, you say, you know what is it "like" to an have an experience (I guess that would like having another experience?) do you know what it is "like" not to have an experience (which apparently a zombie doesn't)?  Is that "like" when one is asleep, for example?  Or, maybe, kind of like staring blankly at a wall? Is that what being a zombie is like?

The philosophical problems in the definition of a zombie are huge and obvious. Zombies should have been left in third rate Hollywood movies where they belong.

DA