Meaning of antizombie | Babel Free

Definitions

The inverse of the philosophical zombie; an exact duplicate of a human being which certainly and necessarily does have conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Examples

“Let's find⟳ that bibulous "antizombie" state of pure experience⟳.”

“Finally, in chapter 6 I revisit certain questions, especially concerning the nature of subjectivity, in the context of an exploration of various anti-zombie arguments.”

“The perfect experiment⟳ suggests the anti-zombie: a creature which is conscious, perhaps in just one respect⟳, as in Cohen and Dennett«s isolation of colour consciousness, but gives no sign⟳ of it.”

“We must all be functionalists. By demolishing the intuitions, the anti-zombie argument removes what has long been seen as a major problem for physicalism and functionalism. And by bringing out the fact that consciousness depends on a number⟳ of different information-processing capacities, that argument hints at what it really is.”

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