"hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. When a zombie is poked with a sharp object, for example, it does not feel any pain. However, it behaves exactly as if it does feel pain (..), but it does not actually have the experience of pain as a putative 'normal' person does.

"a term of art used in philosophy for sensory occurrences of all kinds. (...) Clarence Irving Lewis, who considered them distinct from the properties of objects. To carry the definition further than the non-committal phrase ‘sensory occurrences’ is at once to enter into controversial territory."

"Robots could one day demand the same citizen's rights as humans, according to a study by the British government."

"But what if God himself can be simulated...
reduced to the signs which attest his existence?"

"Macintosh is Catholic and DOS is Protestant"

"examine subtle correlations that appear to reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. (...) We believe our view may be enriched by a creative and poetic perspective. "