The structure and bounds of consciousness
Brandon Ashby
Philosophers often discuss zombies and inverts, hypothetical cases in which perfect physical/functional duplicate of us either lack conscious experience or else have their experiences “shuffled” such that they correlate with different stimuli and physiological states. The idea that there may also be physical/functional duplicates of us who have more kinds of experiences than we do, however, has gone unnoticed. These phenomenal smugglers, as I call them, raise novel questions on what sorts of res