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Probably preaching to the choir here, but I don't understand the conceivability argument for p-zombies. It seems to rely on the idea that human intuitions (at least among smart, philosophically sophisticated people) are a reliable detector of what is and is not logically possible.
But we know from other areas of study (e.g. math) that this is almost certainly false.
Eg, I'm pretty good at math (majored in it in undergrad, performed reasonably well). But unless I'm tracking things carefully, it's not immediately obvious to me (and certainly not inconceivable) that pi is a rational number. But of course the irrationality of pi is not just an empirical fact but a logical necessity.
Even more straightforwardly, one can easily construct Boolean SAT problems where the answer can conceivably be either True or False to a human eye. But only one of the answers is logically possible! Humans are far from logically omniscient rational actors.
Conceivability is not invoked for logical statements, or mathematical statements about abstract objects. But zombies seem to be concrete rather than abstract objects. Similar to pink elephants. It would be absurd to conjecture that pink elephants are mathematically impossible. (More specifically, both physical and mental objects are typically counted as concrete.) It would also seem strange to assume that elephants being pink is logically impossible. Or things being faster than light. These don't seem like statements that could hide a logical contradiction.
Do you think ideal reasoning is well-defined? In the limit I feel like you run into classic problems like anti-induction, daemons, and all sorts of other issues that I assume people outside of our community also think about. Is there a particularly concrete definition philosophers like Chalmers use?