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>From: mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott)
Subject: Re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI
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Summary: Zombie do, Zombie feel
Keywords: consciousness,functionalism
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  In article <1992Feb4.043521.11469@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

  >Right, so even my qualia-less zombie replica would *think* it had
  >qualia; at least it would *say* that it had qualia.  Alas for the
  >poor deluded creature!  But as for me, I don't just *think* that I
  >have qualia; I really do have qualia.  Trust me!

I hardly need to point out that the zombies of the type I am
advocating would automatically have Chalmers-style qualia by virtue of
being information-processing systems.  So on either theory they
succeed in having qualia.

                                             -- Drew McDermott




