RolfAndreassen comments on What makes us think _any_ of our terminal values aren't based on a misunderstanding of reality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 04 October 2013 05:29:49PM 0 points [-]

Existential zombie: All the atoms are in all the same places but they don't mean anything.

Causal zombie: So far as anyone can tell, my brain is doing exactly the same things, but only by coincidence and not because it follows from the laws of physics.

Oddly enough, the other day I ran into someone who appears to literally believe a combination of these two.

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