Re: Re: The p-zombie is a strawman argument

2012-10-22 Thread Roger Clough
apaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-21, 17:21:22 Subject: Re: The p-zombie is a strawman argument On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stathis, > > Sorry, my previous email was accidentally sent too early. > > You said that if a candidat

Re: The p-zombie is a strawman argument

2012-10-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, October 21, 2012 5:21:53 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: > > Yes, that's Dennett's position. He has called the idea of zombies "an > embarrassment to philosophy". So do you agree that if a computer could > converse with you like a human then it would have a mind? > A movie can converse w

Re: The p-zombie is a strawman argument

2012-10-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stathis, > > Sorry, my previous email was accidentally sent too early. > > You said that if a candidate person behaves as if he > has a mind, then he does. > > That may be OK, but if a person does NOT have a mind, > ( is a zombie), then my