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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 Difference Between Possible and Conceivable in the Zombie Argument

Philosophers like to talk about possible worlds what goes on in different possible worlds. I'm inclined to think the zombie hypothesis looks to me perfectly coherent and perfectly conceivable there is a universe which is physically identical to ours but in which nobody has subjective experience it's not an entire zombie universe if you like conscious experience never flickers into existence.

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