WHOEVER: Hi Bruno and Roger,
What would distinguish, for an external observer, a p-zombie from a a
person that does not see the world external to it as anything other than an
internal panorama with which it cannot interact?
BRUNO: Nobody can distinguish a p-zombie from a human, even if that human is
solipsist, even a very special sort of solipsist like the one you describe.
Bruno
ROGER: Previously I deduced that a p-zombie (or any zombie without a brain)
would be an absurdity (not be able, as required, to act as a real person)
because
any being without a brain could not know anything. It would not know
what to do in any event -- and as far as conversing with it, it could
not understand language. You'd also find it bumping into walls.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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