Chalmers's philosophical zombie argument relies centrally on the claimed transparency of phenomenal concepts: the thinker can directly grasp the essence of conscious experience and thereby judge that a physically identical being without experience is ideally conceivable, which is then taken to support metaphysical possibility and anti-physicalism. This paper argues that this reliance generates...
This paper presents a recursive-ontological critique of David Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness, the philosophical zombie argument, and the ontological privilege granted to subjectivity. Centered on the state-update equation S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n), it deconstructs the first-person privilege, symmetrically reviews zombie and "philosophical God" arguments, and proposes seven core principles...