I haven’t read Chalmers book, so I am just going by what I read here, but at the beginning of the post you promise to show the zombie world as logically impossible, but never deliver; you show that it is improbable enough to be perhaps be considered practically impossible, but since we are just dealing with a “thought experiment,” that is irrelevant. For example, I do not think that everyone around me is a zombie. In fact, I’d bet all the money I have that they aren’t. But I still don’t KNOW they aren’t, the way I KNOW that I am not.
On another note, I’m surprised at some of the ad hominem-type statements on this thread (people that don’t agree with are like creationists, people that don’t agree with me just don’t want to see the truth). On most blogs, it’s expected, but it is interesting to see it here.
I haven’t read Chalmers book, so I am just going by what I read here, but at the beginning of the post you promise to show the zombie world as logically impossible, but never deliver; you show that it is improbable enough to be perhaps be considered practically impossible, but since we are just dealing with a “thought experiment,” that is irrelevant. For example, I do not think that everyone around me is a zombie. In fact, I’d bet all the money I have that they aren’t. But I still don’t KNOW they aren’t, the way I KNOW that I am not.
On another note, I’m surprised at some of the ad hominem-type statements on this thread (people that don’t agree with are like creationists, people that don’t agree with me just don’t want to see the truth). On most blogs, it’s expected, but it is interesting to see it here.