2009-06-24
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Describing zombies
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Tim ConnollyUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Derek,
It sounds like you might be in agreement with Dennett's line:
Contrary to what is
presupposed by the zombie idea, consciousness is ‘not a
single wonderful separable thing … but a huge complex of many
different informational capacities that individually arise for a wide
variety of reasons. … It is not a separate organ or a separate
medium or a separate talent. He compares
health:
Supposing that by an act of stipulative imagination you can
remove consciousness while leaving all cognitive systems intact —
a quite standard but entirely bogus feat of imagination — is like
supposing that by an act of stipulative imagination, you can remove
health while leaving all bodily functions and powers intact. …
Health isn’t that sort of thing, and neither is consciousness.
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Yes, No?
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