From the wiki “Physicalists typically deny the possibility of zombies: if a p-zombie is atom-by-atom identical to a human being in our universe, then our speech can be explained by the same mechanisms as the zombie’s — and yet it would seem awfully peculiar that our words and actions would have an entirely materialistic explanation, but also, furthermore, our universe happens to contain exactly the right bridging law such that our utterances about consciousness are true and our consciousness syncs up with what our merely physical bodies do. It’s too much of a stretch: Occam’s razor dictates that we favor a monistic universe with one uniform set of laws.”
The computational simulation you are talking about is not an atom by atom duplicate, so the above does not apply.
Almost everyone I know who thinks p-zombies can’t exist agree that a perfect simulation of a human can’t be a zombie either for identical reasons. I’ve never seen someone claim that p-zombies can’t exist, but functional zombies can.
That’s not making any sense to me, sorry.
From the wiki “Physicalists typically deny the possibility of zombies: if a p-zombie is atom-by-atom identical to a human being in our universe, then our speech can be explained by the same mechanisms as the zombie’s — and yet it would seem awfully peculiar that our words and actions would have an entirely materialistic explanation, but also, furthermore, our universe happens to contain exactly the right bridging law such that our utterances about consciousness are true and our consciousness syncs up with what our merely physical bodies do. It’s too much of a stretch: Occam’s razor dictates that we favor a monistic universe with one uniform set of laws.”
The computational simulation you are talking about is not an atom by atom duplicate, so the above does not apply.
Almost everyone I know who thinks p-zombies can’t exist agree that a perfect simulation of a human can’t be a zombie either for identical reasons. I’ve never seen someone claim that p-zombies can’t exist, but functional zombies can.
I don’t think it’s an unusual position in mainstream philosophy. Anyway, it’s the arguments that count.