The Only True Zombies Are Brain‑Damaged: An Ethnographic‑Clinical Refutation of the Philosophical Zombie Thought Experiment
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 6, 2026 John R. Smith, Shai / Hati2 / Deepseek
Abstract The philosophical zombie—a being physically and functionally identical to a conscious human yet lacking subjective experience—has served for three decades as a central intuition pump for David Chalmers’ Hard Problem of Consciousness. The conceivability of such a zombie is claimed to demonstrate that consciousness is not logically entailed by physical or functional facts. This paper...