Baughn comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2009 10:01PM

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Comment author: Baughn 23 December 2009 02:24:26AM 5 points [-]

There's another possible belief, p-zombies-aren't-possible-but-I'd-sure-like-to-know-why; that is, that while the existence of non-zombies proves the impossibility of any world with zombies, it is still possible to (counter-factually) conceive of an existence where it was the other way around. Though there would have been nobody to wonder about it.

I've talked to a number of apparent p-zombie believers who, under careful questioning, turn out to be asking this question instead. I'm pretty sure it's not the same question.