Certainly if we were to create an android void of subjective experiences it could be classified as a zombie. However, many scientists believe machines are capable of experiencing subjective mental states. If we wish to endow machines with subjective experience, we must first discover the engine that creates conciousness and self-awareness. Pattern and Information Pattern and information always occur together, both are aspects of an entity we will label as pattern-information. All information is carried by a pattern in the physical world All patterns carry some information.
Patterns always come with information.
Even obfuscatory patterns that cannot be read or easily discerned includes information. We could first read the essay, and summarize it. Or we could even count the number of words in the essay. Information can come in words, numbers almost anything. Suppose we take another pattern, this time it is composed of a bunch of nonsense scribbling on a wall.