![]() ![]() On the other hand, a smarter kind of zombie might know what humans would do in such situations and pretend to recoil and curse as if in extreme pain.Īccordingly, philosophical zombies lead us to what’s called the ‘hard problem of consciousness’, which is whether or not each human has individually unique feelings while experiencing things – whereby each person produces his or her own reactions to stimuli, unlike everyone else’s. It would not have the inward, natural, individualised experience of actual pain the way the rest of us would. Which means that if, for example, a zombie was to drop an anvil on its foot, it might give itself away by not reacting at all or, perhaps, very differently than normal. ![]() You and a zombie could not tell each other apart.Įxcept, there is one important difference: philosophical zombies lack conscious experience. These zombies match our comportment, seeming to think, know, understand, believe, and communicate just as we do. One thought experiment begins by hypothesising the existence of zombies who are indistinguishable in appearance and behaviour from ordinary people. Some philosophers have used the notion of ‘philosophical zombies’ in a bid to make a point about the source and nature of human consciousness. ![]()
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