Two points about the philosophy of consciousness: 1. No one has ever shown that philosophical zombies are possible. 2. No one has ever shown that Mary would say anything other than “Yup” when she first saw color. Let these horrible thought experiments die and move on!
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The reason that I care is that I think there are difficult problems to address, which get obscured by focusing on the thought experiments—and I don’t think the failure of these thought experiments tells us much about what the right ontology of mind is!
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Though I think I’m on the same page as you with zombies, now that I’m mostly on team mind = life...
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A trial by fire, to climb the most frustrating Wittgensteinian Ladders!
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