Bruno Marchal skrev: > For example, a zombie is just some entity which looks like you and me, > i.e. has all the appearance of a human, and who has no consciousness. > There is no *need* to make them a priori fundamentally material. Now a > materialist can and even should interpret this as a zombie in the > sense of Dennett, but the definition continues to make sense for a non > materialist, who for example just consider itself that physics is > implemented or emerge from something else. It shows that the notion of > zombie does not depend on the materialist or non materialist belief. A > zombie is just something NON conscious despite it has all the > appearance of a human like you and me (and thus is material for a > materialist, and immaterial for an immaterialist). >
If you want a concrete example of a zombie, you can just think of me. I am an entity that have all the appearance of a human, but I have no consciousness... -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---