Are we more than just our bodies? Philosophers argue over zombies.
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"Zombie"
The word comes from the Hatian folklore and refers to a corpse animated by witchcraft.
In philosophy, this idea of a regular human but with no conscious experiences is known as a “philosophical zombie" or a “p-zombie". It is an argument against physicalism - the school of thought that everything that makes us human is ultimately derived from our physical characteristics.
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P-zombie as a Foundation to Dualism
If a p-zombie is logically conceivable, a physical body minus the mental, then this possibility could support dualism - an alternative view that sees the world consisting of not just the physical but also the mental. In other words, since a world of zombies is imaginable, all behaving purely at the physical level, why did evolution produce consciousness in humans?
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The Physicalism Analogy: A Proof to Dualism
- Physicalism says that everything in our world is physical.
- If physicalism is true, everything in out world is physical including consciousness.
- But we can conceive of a “zombie world", a physical world without consciousness then,
- Physicalism is proven false, because our world consists of both physical and mental attributes.
The existence of consciousness is a further, nonphysical fact about our world.
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