luna the deer

P-Zombies. But I'm not just an automaton, because those are supposed to behave according to a number of set principles, and I am way to disorganised for that

@lexi1/13/2023, 10:43 PM

wait thats actually a thing?? i was trying to joke about me being braindead damn

Quidam @Quidam1/13/2023, 10:46 PM

It's a thought experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

@lexi1/13/2023, 11:06 PM

ik but i was not aware that that thought experiment existed lol

@joXn1/14/2023, 5:47 AM

A P-Zombie is slightly different, I think; they look, respond, and act like non-zombies but they don't have conscious experience. I.e., there's nothing that it's like to be them. The point about P-Zombies is that (supposedly) looking at them from the outside, it would be impossible to distinguish them from non-zombies.

Presumably @lexi is not in a state of confusion about whether or not it has conscious experience; and if it didn't and told us so then it wouldn't be a P-Zombie.

@lexi1/14/2023, 1:42 PM

Presumably @lexi is not in a state of confusion

yep, i was just making a dumb joke lol

Quidam @Quidam1/15/2023, 4:14 AM

You're right, but also, I just thought it would be funny.

@joXn1/14/2023, 5:42 AM

the illusion of control is an epiphenomenon

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