Why and how we are not zombies

Journal of Consciousness Studies 1 (2):164-67 (1994)
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A robot that is functionally indistinguishable from us may or may not be a mindless Zombie. There will never be any way to know, yet its functional principles will be as close as we can ever get to explaining the mind

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