creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
type: journalp
datestamp: 2001-06-19
lastmod: 2011-05-02 12:18:19
metadata_visibility: show
title: Why and How We Are Not Zombies
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: consciousness, reverse engineering, other-minds problem, bind/body problem, zombies, functionalism, epiphenomenalism, causality
abstract: A robot that is functionally indistinguishable from us may or may not be a mindless Zombie. There will never be any way to know, yet its functional principles will be as close as we can ever get to explaining the mind. 
date: 1995
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Consciousness Studies
volume: 1
pagerange: 164-167
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (1995) Why and How We Are Not Zombies.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1601/2/harnad95.zombies.pdf
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