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    The zombie argument and the disembodied mind argument are... — Carmelics
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    The zombie argument and the disembodied mind argument are not equivalent

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    • 1.The zombie hypothesis claims a body could exist without a mind
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    • 3.These two hypotheses are logically distinct and neither trivially entails the other
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    This argument should be distinguished from a similar ‘conceivability’ argument, often known as the ‘zombie hypothesis’, which claims the imaginability and possibility of my body (or, in some forms, a body physically just like it) existing without there being any conscious states associated with it. (See, for example, Chalmers (1996), 94–9.) This latter argument, if sound, would show that conscious states were something over and above physical states. It is a different argument because the hypoth
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