HA: I think there’s sort of a boundary between what you mean and what people are reading from your comments. Specifically, I don’t know that you and the people you’re arguing with mean the same things when you say “zombie”, which kind of messes things up. Your definition of zombie appears to be nonstandard, and also really vague as expressed. I think the biggest problem, though, is that other people assume you mean one thing (basically the Chalmers version of “zombie”) when I don’t think that’s precisely what you mean. If I’ve got your position at all right, it roughly boils down to the fact that “something funky seems to be going on in our heads that we don’t really understand, and which a Turing test couldn’t necessarily measure”—which I’d actually agree with, although I still find Chalmers’ zombies to be dumb, illogical, question-begging, etc. Before getting into the finer points, it usually helps if everyone means the same thing by a given word, or at least knows who means what by it. Honestly, I’d suggest dumping the term “zombie” in favor of something else if you don’t mean Chalmers’ version because otherwise it will lead to misunderstandings.
Tanasije: It would be a lot easier to agree or disagree with you if I didn’t have to decipher what precisely you mean by “metaphysical”, “a priori”, and so on. See, these words don’t come loaded with hard-and-fast universal meanings, so when you use them you should probably define them or many responses are going to (continue to) come in the form of confusion.
HA: I think there’s sort of a boundary between what you mean and what people are reading from your comments. Specifically, I don’t know that you and the people you’re arguing with mean the same things when you say “zombie”, which kind of messes things up. Your definition of zombie appears to be nonstandard, and also really vague as expressed. I think the biggest problem, though, is that other people assume you mean one thing (basically the Chalmers version of “zombie”) when I don’t think that’s precisely what you mean. If I’ve got your position at all right, it roughly boils down to the fact that “something funky seems to be going on in our heads that we don’t really understand, and which a Turing test couldn’t necessarily measure”—which I’d actually agree with, although I still find Chalmers’ zombies to be dumb, illogical, question-begging, etc. Before getting into the finer points, it usually helps if everyone means the same thing by a given word, or at least knows who means what by it. Honestly, I’d suggest dumping the term “zombie” in favor of something else if you don’t mean Chalmers’ version because otherwise it will lead to misunderstandings.
Tanasije: It would be a lot easier to agree or disagree with you if I didn’t have to decipher what precisely you mean by “metaphysical”, “a priori”, and so on. See, these words don’t come loaded with hard-and-fast universal meanings, so when you use them you should probably define them or many responses are going to (continue to) come in the form of confusion.