zombie - A being that behaves like us and may share our functional organization and even, perhaps, our neurophysiological makeup without conscious experiences or qualia. See consciousness.

Larry Hauser


References

[Zombies on the Web][Zombies in Philosophy]

Dennett, D.C. 1995. The unimagined preposterousness of zombies. Journal of Consciousness Studies 2:322-26.

Hauser, L. 1995. Revenge of the zombies. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind, December 29, 1995. Michigan State University Philosophy Department, October 20, 1995.

Tye, M. 1983. On the possibility of disembodied existence. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 61:275-282.

Kirk, R. 1974. Zombies vs materialists. Aristotelian Society Supplement 48:135-52.

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