Philosophical zombies, shombies and what conceivability can tell us about the nature of mind.
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Episodes where it comes up most
Daniel Stoljar
- 36:54 “…then he's saying well what what what I have what I have proved with my conceivability argument is that a picture of the world according to which everything is a”
- 22:22 “…convinced let's put it that way you're convinced by the sort of standard conceivability arguments against traditional versions of physicalism so you think we need to to sort…”
Philip Goff
- 1:08:51 “…at least so I wonder what you would say then about so transitioning to conceivability claims so you like what I'm not hearing you invoke is zombies”
- 1:13:55 “…want to say that I do I do actually run in Moraga a transparent s area conceivability argument a zombie style argument in terms of the transparency stuff rather than the two-dimensional…”
Keith Frankish
- 2:00:57 “…Chalmers actually asked me he was like why are you still using the word zombie why don't you just use the word anti-zombie it's already established and i thought that was…”
- 2:06:05 “…CP thesis and now that has been claimed for the collusion I know that zombies aren't because he were all that the CP thesis is false right and I said I either way cuz…”
Andrew Lee
- 1:48:01 “…epistemic relationship between ourselves and our own experiences versus the zombie and uh the you know um the quasi experiences that the zombie has i i think this kind of relates…”
- 1:31:56 “…they're blah about it the entire time if we compare that with um infinite zombie hood then isn't the boring life better and does that not put some pressure on on in the opposite…”
Declan Smithies
- 1:25:37 “…isn't a causal thing there's no causal difference like you that's why the zombies are conceivable you could have all the same cause and effects without this stuff and so and…”
- 43:13 “so look can i i want to ask about the zombies again um and here i'm sort of under the influence of jeff actually who mentioned earlier…”
Geoffrey Lee
- 1:28:16 “…but it sounds so if you had a trolley problem where you had you know a zombie on one side and a typical human on the other side there'd be no reason to pull the lever one…”
- 28:58 “…know what it is we have to describe it in this other way so yeah so a zombie martian scientist can know better than elsewhere consciousness is i do think that but better…”
François Kammerer
- 1:57:17 “…because again it's in reality yeah so so I mean Jeff thinks that you know zombies their pains matter pain stars or whatever you want to call them you know that they're they're…”
- 29:31 “should be why I should back away from that claim and if you say things like zombies and Mary well you know I say things like shambes which are my physical duplicates that have…”
François Kammerer
- 1:21:30 “that it's just possible. Um that is con that it's conceivable that there is a physical creature that has phenomenal consciousness seems conceivable to…”
- 1:44:18 “…We And so, just saying there's the intuition of something weird about zombies. Yeah, great. There's the intuition there's something weird about shambies. Yeah, great.…”
Josh Weisberg
- 42:56 “…explained Consciousness and someone says no you haven't you've turned us into zombies somehow we think we've got this you know shared concept and that's the one I don't see again…”
- 33:31 “…yeah right so one way to think of me as typ a is that I'm denying that zombies are conceivable and so however I'm doing that um and so in that sense I think my view is…”
Consciousness Live! -Do I know how to work the Chat?
- 1:22:16 “…Consciousness the other day has there been reports of people becoming Chum or zombie after brain damage like I sometimes lose”
- 9:07 “…argument which is an argument that's you know that uh that starts from the conceivability of a creature physically just like myself which is conscious and merely”
David Papineau
- 1:47:28 “same causation in the actual world with conscious fillers and the zombie world with non conscious fellows and so the difference between the conscious and unconscious…”
- 1:52:40 “…and thereby water I mean surely I can see them but see I think of what's conceivable as just as what can be as it were written down as a sentence with another contradiction…”
Luke Roelofs
- 8:12 “…do an excellent job of that but but but with like with respect to the conceivability arguments for example there are well-known responses to that”
- 1:37:35 “that okay i mean i guess that's where you just say conceivability arguments and things like that that's where the evaluation of those candidates comes…”