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The Zombie Talking About Consciousness Puzzle

A deep puzzle in the zombie thought experiment is why a zombie devoid of phenomenal experience would talk about consciousness at all—but since there are brain mechanisms responsible for everything we say and do, those same mechanisms would produce the zombie's reports, raising the possibility that the things we say about consciousness (an easy problem) might be explicable in physical terms even if the experience itself is not.

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Speaker

David Chalmers

Evidence Quote

explain the things we say about consciousness in physical terms because that's just a behavioral response that's in principle one of the easy problems

Source

34 - The Light Of The MindMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:24:58 AM

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