Robert,
I am sure my colleagues will see immediately the fallacy in your argument: that it is a case of an Ad-Zombium argument. Furthermore, it stipulates that Zombies have a mental life, since a mental life would seem to be necessary for pigheadedness, madness, OR solipsism. And since a Cartesian Zombie is defined as something without a mental life, your argument concerns a zero set. So there! Nick PS. Did you mean sophistry? Or Sollipsism. I have to get my insults straight, here. From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:31 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people (was America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist) Here's some grounds for denying the non-zombie's account of his zombieness: the non-zombie is mad or pig-headed or over-familiar with solipsism. Or a combination of all three. -R On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Nicholas Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: Robert, <snip>So, there can be no grounds (that I can think off), for denying a non-zombie's account that he is a zombie.
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