However, all they’ve done is pick specific premises that hide clever assumptions that logically must end up with their desired conclusion, without any reason in particular to believe that their premises make any sense. See the amateur logic I did in my edits of the grandparent.
It is very much assumed, by asserting the first, third and fourth premises, that qualia does not require brain interactions, as a prerequisite for positing the existence of p-zombies in the thought experiment.
Eh. I’m bad at informal fallacies, apparently.
However, all they’ve done is pick specific premises that hide clever assumptions that logically must end up with their desired conclusion, without any reason in particular to believe that their premises make any sense. See the amateur logic I did in my edits of the grandparent.
It is very much assumed, by asserting the first, third and fourth premises, that qualia does not require brain interactions, as a prerequisite for positing the existence of p-zombies in the thought experiment.