The usual p-zombie argment in the literature does not assume consciousness is entirely physical. Which is not the same as assuming it is non physical...
Just to be clear, the fact that they talk about bridging laws or such doesn’t mean they didn’t generate the idea with magical thinking, or that is has a hope in hell of being actually true. It just means they managed to put a band-aid over that particular fallacy.
No comment. That’s not what I said and I’m not saying it now. My point is that, while the p-zombie argument may have been formulated with “magical” explanations in mind, it does not directly reference them in the form usually presented.
I see little point in ignoring what an argument states explicily in favour of speculations about what the formulaters had in mind. I also think that rhetorical use of the word “magic” is mind killing. Quantum teleportation might seem magical to a 19th century physicist, but it still exists.
Which is why my point is that that the argument makes no mention of “magic”.
My point is that, while the p-zombie argument may have been formulated with “magical” explanations in mind, it does not directly reference them in the form usually presented.
The usual p-zombie argment in the literature does not assume consciousness is entirely physical. Which is not the same as assuming it is non physical...
Just to be clear, the fact that they talk about bridging laws or such doesn’t mean they didn’t generate the idea with magical thinking, or that is has a hope in hell of being actually true. It just means they managed to put a band-aid over that particular fallacy.
So physicalism is apriori true, even when there is no physical explanaion of some phenomenon?
No comment. That’s not what I said and I’m not saying it now. My point is that, while the p-zombie argument may have been formulated with “magical” explanations in mind, it does not directly reference them in the form usually presented.
I see little point in ignoring what an argument states explicily in favour of speculations about what the formulaters had in mind. I also think that rhetorical use of the word “magic” is mind killing. Quantum teleportation might seem magical to a 19th century physicist, but it still exists.
Which is why my point is that that the argument makes no mention of “magic”.