Existence Of Philosophical Zombies: Possibility And Arguments

Are Philosophical Zombies Possible? 

Philosophical Zombies: Definition and Arguments

The essay is a descriptive form that elaborates the concept of Philosophical Zombies. The essay also agrees the argument that the existence of Philosophical Zombies are Possible. The creature named “Zombie” are imaginary creatures that are designed to light up problems about consciousness and how is it related to physical world. Yes, the philosophical zombies do exist in the world as proved by many philosophers. Although, science does not give a strong agreement to this. To go deep into the concept, it can be said that automatic behaviour is easily identifiable that it is not as full human. For example- an imitation man whose state of brain is exactly paralleled in the physio-chemical properties who do not feel any pain or sorrow and see no colour. They require such human bodies who have same physical properties or they aren’t exactly full humans but are closer to human`s physical appearance.

René Descartes who was a renowned French philosopher has said that non-human being are automatic and their behaviour wholly lies and is explicit in the physical mechanism. The proof was unveiled when this famous philosopher explained by exploring with the machine which look like a human but it is not. Besides it can released clearly, when a non-human creature would not be able to use the creative language and it would not be able to produce appropriate behaviour without speaking skills in various situations. Therefore, no machine could respond like human being. Thereafter, he admitted that it is to explain human behaviour, which requires behaviour beyond physical, interaction process in brain, immaterial mind. No machine can act and react as same as human because there is such no world that exists physically where people in world lack such mind. Without the functioning of our minds there is a probability that our heart keep beating, breathe while sleeping, digest food, walking in a mindless state. If human mind could not assist the human physical body then it will not be able to show characteristics feature of human.

It is the possibility that philosophical zombie exist as when it is an hypothetical person who demeanour or behaviour is just simply indistinguishable from a normal person but the person lacks conscious experiences such as identifying colour, tasting food and sorrow or pain. For example- a zombie may say that the colour of an apple is red but he will not be able to experience neither colour nor qualia of colour (Piccinini, 2017). Here is an essay that agrees that philosophical zombies exist as why there is a possibility that there is a world where there are identical particles. Therefore, our world cannot be like this. We need a strong argument to prove that whether it is a persistent confusion, illusion or believe system or nothing else to deal with. The intuitions of many philosophers had it in their meditation that here exist a source of energy, which is not pure, or it is misdirected that has devil communication (Rebellato, 2018). There are certain arguments for the conceivability of zombies such as a person whose nature starts to feature those who are progressively deprived of qualia in a sense modality one after the other. It goes without saying that we need to depend on the same cluster of intuition of philosophers as one of the original idea. Not limiting the concept of zombies to conceivability, there is a series of five important arguments against which there is a conflict of viewpoint, which lies between the entailment from physical facts to mental facts. Each proving argument would rely only on reinforcing the intuitive appeal of zombie`s idea (Forbes, 2016). He tries to prove it by little arguments where suppose a small population of people disables their brain and imitate the same functions themselves where leaving the whole body in working mode. Each homunculus (small human creature) uses mobile phone to execute signal receiving and transferring process and functions of human neuro system. Whether this system would work. The arguments do not depend on the assumption that homunculus-head cannot be conscious. Moreover, it relies on the assumption that it’s not being in consciousness and is conceivable where many people find reasonable. Why not switching from small human creatures (homunculi) to neurons switch on the flow of consciousness (Levin, 2018). Although a human and a zombie are different but it can be said that twins can be a right term because twins are genetically identical (Walters, 2018). Once a transporter supposed a “beam” a person that destroys original and created an exact atom replica. If the original one is destroyed, the transporter has a duplicate. The duplicate is very similar to the original one (Ball, 2014). A philosophical zombie is a duplicate of person with sole exception where it do not have non-physical subjective experiences. Many have considered that common errors in understanding the appropriate characteristics of an zombie. One of the model is dualist in which it can be seen that it includes physical body, brain and the nonphysical mind. If these components are included then they can be considered as zombies. Here, a considerable amount of differentiation has been identified. Zombies are not wholly soulless (Van Leeuwen, 2015). Immaterial mind has the ability to use computation language and processing methods. Apart from making decisions regarding processing, it can also chose and make choices that can affect the body. The transporter admitted that the difference between the bean and the original one is that he does not have non-physical experiences. Transporter has proved that zombie duplicate is similar to the behaviour as I am (Lacewing, 2018). We can apply such system that can help them to moral choices and decisions regarding the feeding of information of recognition of colour (Ross, 2018). Prepare their system as per sense of reacting to the emotions of pain, sorrow, withdrawing, greenness and a sense of inner person such as real me or having ego. A general method of thinking about subjective experiences that a person observes and experiences the results from brain or system processing, a system has an Cartesian stage that play out the experiences. For example- when we use an image, it is reflected in our retina in an inverted form. Otherwise, zombie does not have this system or it does not have Cartesian stage (Bourget, & Chalmers, 2014).

Conceivability and Arguments For Philosophical Zombies

The concept of machine that acts as a human being. In the context of philosophical concern, the zombie was separated to distinguish it from monster movies. These are shortly known as p-zombie. These p-zombies depend on how they can be indistinguishable from people or a human being ad which specific quality it lacks (Olson, 2018). Although, these p-zombies behaviours or acts in the same way to the human being. Separating this kind of zombie can be seemed as a machine which is conceived totally different from human being. P-zombie functions equivalent to the human beings and such p-zombie may have a operating system consisting of translators and wires. These wires corresponds to neurons of the human brain. P-zombie is identifiable as physically equivalent to human body. May philosophers reflects this concept in theory of mind and science that configures a high level of complexity which is necessary to mimic perfectly as a human being (Xissy, 2014). It goes without saying that a composition of matter and energy or its configuration will automatically be either conscious or at experience qualia. Therefore, philosophical zombies can be possible by the applying technology into their systems and in this way the artificial human consciousness is affected. Very few people and scientist believes that philosophical zombies exist. Therefore, but some philosophies have proved that the existence of zombies is practically and practically possible. When if things go differently such as if pig has been evolved with wings and there is no contrary idea that pig has wings or even if the gravity of earth that pull things down has failed or has become weaker. This creature is defined as molecule for a molecule for an identity and they are identical in all low-level properties. Functionally, zombies will process same sort of information and reacting in same way to inputs with the internal configuration that is being modified and in an accurate way. No functioning shall be accomplished by real and conscious experience. Then it can said that the pigs with wings exist (Rebellato, 2018). In the contrary, you never know how contrary and uncertain the environment is and how whacky the universe is turned out (Debate.org, 2018). So even though, no theory or science theory proves that philosophical zombies are real. Some other kinds of philosophical zombies can considers flying pigs. There is a broad consensus among the philosophers which the mere possibility that zombies is inconsistent with its existence and physicalism is true (Mölder, & Churchland, 2015). Although, it is just a believe system but we have some physical sciences that account for consciousness. Here is an example where we have identify the state of conscious experiences. It includes feeling of pain, the taste buds that experience of such as bitting a lemon that affects brain states when it is made up of nature and material. The trouble occurs when it is to search and identify that there exist a sense of logical identity and also exist an explained brain state, which is in terms of properties of certain physical constituents (Goff, 2013). Another proving activity is that, if X is same and identical with Y, if X cannot exist possibly without Y. Even if one part of it is absent, two of them cannot exist. After the same is the people who cannot be separated, such as even god could not pull them apart Elton john and Reg Dwight (Aranyosi, 2018). If pain can not be identified with the help of c-fibre firing. But in twin zombie, c-fibre firing does not have the sense of pain without the conscious states. Therefore, the brain is somewhere identical with the conscious state of the mind. From the discussion, it can be brought down to zombie non-existence that it is against its physicalism (Stack exchange, 2018). Philosophical zombies exist and therefore human brain states could possibly exist without human conscious states just with artificial intelligence. As the world is progressing and food sources are reducing, the reality of existence of zombies is getting closer. It first create a huge shortage of food and electricity too and people will not be able to see anything and will not anything to eat and will finally eat each other to satisfy themselves. The zombie disaster is real. Although, the image of any zombie is not given anywhere not in biblical but they are present (Coxhead, 2015).   

Conclusion

From the above descriptive discussion on philosophical existence of zombies. It will always remain a myth and a two two-edged sword that keeps creating confusion whether there exist a smell of zombies or not. The theory of elimination creates material can be in trouble. It lacks consciousness in all material aspects of humans. Wholly, I think idea of Philosophical zombies can be mimic about a true and conscious human that includes speaking and identifying qualia that still do not have any awareness of their own.

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