Philosophical Zombies? Inconceivable!

A philosophical zombie (also called ap-zombie) is, in philosophy, a thought experiment that plays into our ideas about consciousness. Basically, a p-zombie is a person who looks and acts like any other person, but who doesn’t have consciousness. There are two different versions of a p-zombie:

The first version is only afunctional p-zombie. This is a zombie that looks and acts identically to any human, but that internally is not identical (the physical construct is different). You can think o...