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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Zombie: A Philosopher's Thought Experiment

The philosopher zombie is a creature which is exactly like us functionally and maybe physically but isn't conscious now it's very important to say nobody certainly not me is arguing that zombies actually exist. I did once meet a philosopher in Dublin who is very concerned that quite a lot of philosophers actually were zombies they weren't conscious at all. He took me to lunch and he asked me a whole lot of questions about about consciousness and at the end he said okay you pass I think I think you're conscious okay but but only if you have some kind of free will.

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