Zombie bias argument

File name zombie bias argument File created date 02:47 pm Sunday, November 4 2007

The zombie argument has been used to show that a materilist theory of consciousness is not possible. It not that there could not be extra factors involved that are scientific in nature but that these extra factors that are needed for understanding consciounsess are not understandable in scientific terms.

Is there a way to tell if a person is a zombie? A zombie is defined as a human person that acts behaves like a normal but has no internal consciousness

There is the internal knowledge and there is the knowledge from external sources about consciousness of a person.

We know how to animate a person through other means than just the body and these other animations do not need to be conscious in the sense that a person is. The real queston is given two or more cidentireplias if one is consciousness can we have one or more that are not conscious -- do not produce consciousness? For there to be a difference there has to be some factor x that is affecting one cidenitreplica and is not effecting the other that can produce this difference.

Things can be totally irrational where nothing that we predict is ever correct. but this is not how the world seems to work. There seems to be good actons and bad actions that we can take in life. What science is all about is figuring what are the good choices and which choices are not as good. But like every thing else one decision is not the complete picture. In a line of choices there may need to be what appears bad decisions to in the end makes good results.

There could be the comming in and out of conscious expereince which would could be a different expereince that a person could be aware of.

What difference does it make is it just another little argument that might be possible but in the end is only a problem because we know so little.

What does duelism give us? A extra none comprehensible x factor.