Next: Moody's Argument
IN DEFENSE OF IMPENETRABLE ZOMBIES
Selmer Bringsjord
Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180 USA
selmer@rpi.edu 
http://www.rpi.edu/
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Abstract:
Moody is right that the doctrine of conscious inessentialism (CI) is
false. Unfortunately, his zombie-based
argument against (CI), once made sufficiently
clear to evaluate, is revealed as nothing but legerdemain. The fact is,
though Moody has---for reasons I explain---convinced himself otherwise,
certain zombies are impenetrable: that they are zombies, and not conscious
beings like us, is something beyond the capacity of humans to divine.
Selmer Bringsjord
Tue Apr 2 12:59:33 EST 1996