Are Philosophical Zombes Conceivable?

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i still kind of get a satisfaction when there is some sort of like, oh, what your intuition really is about, is about a direct harmor. I i was staring to day at a chalmers's laying out of the conceivability argument about the sombes. And if they are metaphysically possible, whatever, then that means the physical facts,. Then then facupolic notmta, i understood it, and i still felt like i was somehow being cheated into l by a conclusion, and i couldn't quite get why. But so i actually think that that's another way of just expressing the view that you expressed earlier on this episode.

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