Actually, I Think Most People Accept The

A Philosopher Might Find The General Work Unsophisticated, And Scientists Are Often Bemused By Esoteric Talk Of Zombies, Supervenience, And Possible Worlds.

It Probably Helps That My Background Is In The Sciences And I Can Speak The Scientists' Language.

I Think The Existence Of Zombies Would Contradict Certain Laws Of Nature In Our World. It Seems To Be A Law Of Nature, In Our World, That When You Get A Brain Of A Certain Character You Get Consciousness Going Along With It.

Because The Idea Of Zombies Seems To Make Sense, And Seems To, In A Certain Sense, Be Possible, I Think One Can Use That To Argue Against The Thesis That Everything Is Purely Physical. Now Many People, I Think, Agree That The Idea Of Zombies Are Conceivable, Including People Who Want To Be Physicalists.

Even When I Was Studying Mathematics, Physics, And Computer Science, It Always Seemed That The Problem Of Consciousness Was About The Most Interesting Problem Out There For Science To Come To Grips With.