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    It is not the case that Anti-zombies are possible

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Conceivability of anti-zombies relies on our ability to coherently imagine phenomenal consciousness as multiply realizable across radically alien physical substrates.
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    • 2.Our conceivability judgments about consciousness are systematically unreliable because we lack third-person access to the physical-phenomenal relationship (Levine's 'explanatory gap').
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    • 3.If conceivability judgments about consciousness are unreliable, they cannot serve as a guide to metaphysical possibility in the anti-zombie case any more than in the zombie case.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.If anti-zombies are possible, then phenomenal consciousness can be instantiated without the specific physical substrate that actually realizes it in humans (type-B physicalism's core commitment).
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    • 2.Kripkean a posteriori necessities suggest that identity statements like 'pain = C-fiber firing' are, if true, necessarily true—ruling out consciousness without its actual physical realizer.
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    • 3.Therefore, the possibility of anti-zombies presupposes the falsity of the most defensible form of mind-brain identity theory, making the argument question-begging against a well-established physicalist tradition.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Anti-zombies are conceivable
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    • 2.Whatever is conceivable is possible
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