By their very premise, the Zombie argument shows that the mind cannot be physical, as it threatens the argument upon which this premise stands on. As stated above, Zombies combine the presence of physical phenomenal features with the absence of non-phenomenal ones ie. Consciousness. This threatens the physicalist perspective as it suggests that not only can physical beings exist and function without a conscious mental state, but that the mind cannot be reduced to it’s physical properties.

Saul Kripke’s metaphor regarding God and the creation of the universe helps me to further show how the theory of philosophical zombies threatens physicalism and the notion that, in the possibility of a zombie world, the mind cannot be phsysical. It follows