Actions from ejklakeMovable Type Pro 5.22013-10-11T12:03:55Zhttp://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=feed&_type=actions&blog_id=1&id=3132Commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep? in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2013:/charlie/blog-static//1.3664#17219002013-10-11T11:03:55Zejklake
This does feel like a misreading of the concept of zimboes. They are best understood as a reductio ad absurdum of the idea that consciousness is an epiphenomenon, with no causal powers of its own. Zimboes can write just the same fiction as the rest of us. Ask them about the most delicate modalities of sensation and they'll write you a little poem. But they obviously can't refer to their own states of consciousness in order to produce this linguistic behaviour, so some other mechanism must be at work. This means that they are physically distinguishable from non-zimboes after all, contrary to hypothesis. Thus epiphenomenalism is refuted.
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