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Full Idea
When bodies are conceived without mind, Zombies are the topic; when mind is conceived without bodies, Ghosts are the topic.
Gist of Idea
Mindless bodies are zombies, bodiless minds are ghosts
Source
Scott Sturgeon (Matters of Mind [2000], Intro)
Book Ref
Sturgeon,Scott: 'Matters of Mind' [Routledge 2000], p.3
A Reaction
Personally I am not too impressed by either possibility. I doubt whether either of them are even logically possible. Can you have a magnet without its magnetism? Can you have magnetism with no magnet?
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