{"id":637,"date":"2026-02-02T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/why-we-should-be-talking-about-zombie-reasoning\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:00:18","slug":"why-we-should-be-talking-about-zombie-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/why-we-should-be-talking-about-zombie-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we should be talking about zombie reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>if you are into philosophy, then you will see that I\u2019m making an implicit distinction here between conscious activity understood as a phenomenological matter, and conscious activity understood as a functional matter. You will also see that I am implicitly claiming that activities like reasoning and evaluating, and even selecting \u2014 on an ordinary use of such terms \u2014 can only be done by the kinds of things that have phenomenological consciousness.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/thepursuitofliberalism.substack.com\/p\/why-we-should-be-talking-about-zombie\">thepursuitofliberalism.substack.com\/p\/why-we-should-be-talking-about-zombie<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you are into philosophy, then you will see that I\u2019m making an implicit distinction here between conscious activity understood as a phenomenological matter, and conscious activity understood as a functional matter. You will also see that I am implicitly claiming that activities like reasoning and evaluating, and even selecting \u2014 on an ordinary use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,7],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-consciousness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}