Why Zombies Are Inconceivable
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I argue that zombies are inconceivable. More precisely, I argue that the conceivability-intuition that is used to demonstrate their possibility has been misconstrued. Thought experiments alleged to feature zombies founder on the fact that, on the one hand, they must involve ®rst-person imagining, and yet, on the other hand, cannot. Philosophers who take themselves to have imagined zombies have unwittingly con ̄ated imagining a creature who lacks consciousness with imagining a creature without also imagining the consciousness it may or may not possess.
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