How can a mind have the intelligence of a human and not be aware of itself? I never liked the philosophical zombie argument. I haven't yet been able to realistically imagine such an entity.
The funniest part is that, since his behavior is indistinguishable from his non-zombie variant, Philosophical Zombie will write long papers about how they have qualia but Philosophical Zombies don't.
How can a mind have the intelligence of a human and not be aware of itself? It's a great question that still mixes the idea of intelligence with Consciousness.
A Paramecium can discern where's the food, how to run away from an unpleasant spot and stop all activity when anesthetics are present and resuming while its effect is gone.
It can do all that and it does not have brain-cells, nor a lot of intelligence and still the experiment shows that it can stop and re-start like all other conscious beings.
Is not self aware, but we cannot prove that it isn't experiencing its own little qualia.
