Oligopsony comments on Inverse p-zombies: the other direction in the Hard Problem of Consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oligopsony 18 December 2011 11:19:38PM *  12 points [-]

While p-zombies are logically possible but naturally improbable, ... Like the p-zombie, the concept of the i-zombie entails no logical contradiction and hence can be considered both conceivable and possible ... the existence of an i-zombie implies a compelling, empirically based counterexample to...

These are not at all uncontentious claims.

Comment author: jhuffman 19 December 2011 04:38:47PM 6 points [-]

Maybe this whole article is a stealthy way to assert that p-zombies are a meaningful idea.