Thought as a quasi-possibility
Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции April 11, 2023 D. V. Ankin
Thinking something does not guarantee it is logically possible. The gap between conceivability and possibility arises from the intellectual limitations of the epistemic agent, who, within the bounds of available information, may consider logically possible what is actually logically impossible from an absolute standpoint. This allows agents to think not only of non-existent things but also of logically impossible ones, analogous to artists constructing impossible objects. The paper criticizes David Chalmers' zombie argument, showing that a zombie's conceivability does not rule out its absolute inconsistency. It introduces the category of the quasi-possible and distinguishes classical logical omniscience from an agent-based approach using possible-worlds semantics.