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    It is not the case that Zombies are conceivable

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    • 1.Conceivability requires more than the absence of detected contradiction; it requires positive coherent imaginability under ideal rational reflection.
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    • 2.Under ideal rational reflection, the identity of phenomenal states with functional-physical states becomes necessary, collapsing the apparent coherence of zombie descriptions.
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    • 3.What appears conceivable to cognitively limited reasoners may reveal hidden contradictions upon sufficient a priori analysis, as Kripke's modal framework implies.
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    • 1.Dennett argues that when philosophers claim to conceive of zombies, they are actually conceiving of beings with subtly different functional organization, not true phenomenal absence.
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    • 2.Any genuine attempt to strip qualia while preserving all physical-functional properties collapses into an incoherent instruction, because phenomenal character just is a certain functional role.
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    • 3.If 'zombie' descriptions smuggle in functional differences unnoticed, the appearance of conceivability is an artifact of imprecise stipulation rather than genuine modal coherence.
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    • 1.A coherent situation is described when zombies are described
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    • 2.No contradiction can be discerned in the description of zombies
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