The Value of Consciousness to the One Who Has It

In Geoffrey Lee & Adam Pautz (eds.), The Importance of Being Conscious. Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
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There is a strong intuition that a zombie’s life is never good or bad for the zombie. What explains this? In this paper, I consider five possible explanations of the intuition that a zombie’s life is never worth living, plus the option of rejecting the intuition. I point out the considerable costs of each option, though making clear which option strikes me as least problematic.

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