SilasBarta comments on The Zombie Preacher of Somerset - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Yvain 28 March 2009 10:29PM

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Comment author: Yvain 28 March 2009 11:15:19PM 4 points [-]

Send to yvain314@hotmail.com , and thank you much.

Is there a word for a person without consciousness who functions perfectly normally except for correctly admitting he lacks consciousness? I thought p-zombie was broad enough to cover both that and Chalmers-type zombies.

Comment author: SilasBarta 11 June 2010 08:55:02PM 6 points [-]

Is there a word for a person without consciousness who functions perfectly normally except for correctly admitting he lacks consciousness?

Daniel Dennett

(Well, at least by the ordinary definition of consciousness, not the process he believes consciousness really is)