Nisan comments on Zombie existential angst? (Not p-zombies, just the regular kind. Metaphorically.) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nisan 20 May 2012 12:20:49PM 8 points [-]

say you had a being that valued spending its life enjoying eating broccoli. Except it turns out that it didn’t really like broccoli. [...] So it was going to be in internal emotional conflict for a long time.

If that being is anything like human, I would predict that there's a lot more to it than that, beneath the surface.

I strongly recommend talking to someone who knows more about you personally or someone who's good at talking people through their problems or just anyone in real-time. Less Wrong is great for some purposes, but it may not be what you most need right now.

Comment author: Annie0305 21 May 2012 12:08:53AM 1 point [-]

Ha, I aint exactly about to off myself any time soon! :P

I said this was a problem I more-or-less fixed for myself.

The bits of it that could be handled off of lesswrong, I did.

I'm not looking for counseling here. I'm looking to see how other people try to solve the philosophical problem.

Comment author: Nisan 21 May 2012 02:25:20AM 2 points [-]

That's good to hear. I myself have never experienced this particular problem.