Or in simpler terms: we can’t see how particular physics produces particular consciousness, even if we accept in general that physics produces consciousness.
The conceivability of p-zombies doesn’t mean they are really possible, or that physicalism is false, but it does mean that our explanations are inadequate. Reductivism
is not, as it stands, an explanation of consciousness, but only a proposal of the form an explanation would have.
Or in simpler terms: we can’t see how particular physics produces particular consciousness, even if we accept in general that physics produces consciousness. The conceivability of p-zombies doesn’t mean they are really possible, or that physicalism is false, but it does mean that our explanations are inadequate. Reductivism is not, as it stands, an explanation of consciousness, but only a proposal of the form an explanation would have.