A philosophical zombie matters to the connection between mental and physical in that where both are …show more content…
There is the already perceived and registered information in the brain of a man. The mental part of a man expects the physical to exist in a specific manner. An example, It is expected that once that the color of the blood of a human being is red. Where there exist changes such that the blood expected to ooze from the body of a person turns green, yellow or blue, the mind will be in contradiction as it’s already alive to the fact that the color of blood is normally red. There will emerge a conflict as the knowledge already registered in the mind did not match with the physical. This comes with the issue of imagination where an imaginary world is created in the mind of a person where there is a contradiction lurking in the description.
The idea of zombie is very useful. Zombies bring out the other world where no conscious existed. This is depicted from their inability to have sensations and experience. They cannot remember an experience and use the knowledge gained from it to handle a current situation. An example is the fact that zombies will always undertake whatever they were directed to do from the word go unless the controller makes changes on the direction. It creates a difference between man and the nonliving …show more content…
Thus they are used to undertake tusks that cannot be undertaken by a man since he will reflect and sense in case of danger. An example is with reference to heights. Zombies are used as the subjects who test the waters when it comes to landing in new planets since they have no conscious. They don’t have a soul thus they can’t sense the dangers associated but they will send back the expected information to the person sending them out.
Zombies are an indication of the existence of a logical possibility. Zombies are replicas identical to man only that they lack the consciousness. They perform similar to a man despite lacking the phenomenal sensation. They are a replica of human kind in that their behavior is indistinguishable to that of a man. They neurologically akin to the human mind only that they lack the conscious part of the brain but they can undertake tusks similar to a right thinking man. The consciousness is related to the soul in that the zombies lack the soul as they are not