Volume 59, Issue 1, March 1999
Selmer Bringsjord
Pages 41-69
The Zombie Attack on the Computational Conception of Mind
Is it true that if zombies---creatures who are behaviorally indistinguishable from us, but no more conscious than a rock-are logically possible, the computational conception of mind is false? Are zombies logically possible? Are they physically possible? This paper is a careful, sustained argument for affirmative answers to these three questions.