Is Zombiardgment Incompatible With Consciousness?

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I take the zombi ardgment to just be a philosopher thought experiment way of expressing that same senti need to take us through conceiva, conceivability, and the relationship between conceivability and metaphysical possibility. So then i think that what i'm saying is, i've never gotten any sort of satisfact, like, there's never been a conclusion where i feel satisfied with flossyof mind. And you never know whether a debate is purely terminological, you know, like at every point you're kind of suspecting, wait a minute. What are the stakes here?

It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the resurgent debate over whether consciousness is the fundamental stuff that makes up the universe. We hoped we might be entering Miyazaki land - river spirits, benevolent radishes, a universal mind. But is this just the same old philosophy of mind debate with different words? Are there any stakes to this debate or is it purely terminological? Plus – we answer some last-minute questions from listeners on dissertations, Ukraine, pseudoscience, and the music from "The Shield."