The Zombie Argument and Physicalism

In the field of philosophy, zombies are imaginary creatures and are used to explain questions about the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. Zombies are the same as humans in every physical aspect compared to magic and movie zombies, but have no conscious experience. However, zombies behave like humans, and some of them spend a lot of time discussing consciousness. There are few people who believe in the existence of zombies, but I think that many people can do more than imagined.

This argument is often referred to as a "zombie hypothesis" and I am distinguished from the body, in some way, the likelihood of assertion and body (or imaginable similar "conceivable" of the demonstration area It must exist without conscious state associated with it) like that it must. (See, for example, Chalmers (1996), 94-9.) After the argument, if legitimate, it displays the state of consciousness beyond the physical state. This is a different argument because under the assumption that the unmodified body can exist without mind, different proposals under any circumstances, the mind in which the body may continue to exist, and that is simple It is equivalent. Zombies establish and demonstrate only dualistic properties and nature dualism may think that the physical existence is not considered - for example, he identifies the identity of the mind over time (for example, Penelhum 1970) depending on the relationship with the body

The discussion by Chalmers (1996a, 2002), known as "zombie debate", has a special influence. The first premise of this argument is to repeat oneself without following compliance with Chalmaz 1996a, called "zombies" in the molecule, with "strong" in the sense of a special strong power molecule, and it is thought Yes, there is). The second premise is that the scene imagined 'positively' like this represents a realistic, metaphysical possibility. Therefore, he concluded that zombies are possible and functionalism, more broadly physicalism is wrong. He can explain the contents of imagined zombies in detail and why zombies can imagine the possibility of bringing them (see Chalmers 2002, 2006. For the most part Chalmers will be in the next two ways Its premise to keep the zombie argument power, 2010, Ch.6, Chalmers and Jackson 2002).