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    Challenges→Philosophical zombies (creatures physically identical to humans but lacking consciousness) are genuinely possible.

    If consciousness is identical to a physical state, then a being physically identical to a human but lacking consciousness is no more genuinely possible than XYZ that is water but lacks hydrogen.

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    Physical state(in philosophy of physics)
    The actual condition of something in the real world—for example, where an object is located and how fast it's moving.
    XYZ(Putnam's Twin Earth thought experiment)
    A fictional substance on Twin Earth that shares all manifest properties of water (colourless, tasteless, odourless, good for drinking) but is composed of molecules fundamentally different from H2O.
    consciousness(Philosophy of mind; framing the 'What is consciousness?' question)
    A dynamic process characterized by self-transforming flow, intentional coherence, and semantic self-understanding, rather than a static or momentary state.
    identity (in philosophy)(whether the trees are actually identical)
    Sameness or whether two things are actually the same thing, not just very similar.

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