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date: '2025-11-10'
description: conceivability, possibility, and the limits of functionalism
id: philosophical-zombies
modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:25 GMT-04:00
seealso:
  - '[[thoughts/functionalism]]'
  - '[[thoughts/qualia]]'
  - '[[thoughts/identity]]'
  - '[[thoughts/knowledge argument]]'
  - '[[thoughts/inverted spectrum]]'
  - '[[thoughts/chinese room]]'
  - '[[thoughts/dualism]]'
  - '[[thoughts/physicalism]]'
  - '[[thoughts/phenomenal consciousness]]'
  - '[[thoughts/access consciousness]]'
  - '[[thoughts/panpsychism]]'
socials:
  sep: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
  wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
tags:
  - pattern
title: philosophical zombies
created: '2025-11-10'
published: '2025-11-10'
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chalmers 1996 (conceivability → possibility → anti-materialism). dennett denies. nearby: [[thoughts/inverted spectrum]], china brain, absent qualia.