Daily Shaarli
February 17, 2009
damn.. poor moot :/
"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."
better !
"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.