Cyan comments on Outline of a lower bound for consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 14 January 2010 05:58:41PM *  0 points [-]

Ya, a p-zombie. Wikipedia reports (with a [citation needed]) that sufferers of severe Cotard delusion deny that they exist at all. Presumably such individuals would claim to have no body, no mind, no consciousness, etc. So I agree, not a Zombie in Dennett's sense per se, since they claim to have/be nothing at all, never mind the extra special stuff.

Comment author: komponisto 14 January 2010 06:19:50PM 2 points [-]

In fact it may be worth stressing that, by definition, someone's claim to be a p-zombie would be zero evidence that they were a p-zombie.