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47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2008 09:55AM

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Comment author: bigjeff5 03 February 2011 07:16:59AM 0 points [-]

To put it even more simply:

In Eliezer's zombie world, the zombies have consciousness (and therefore are not zombies), because they are in no physical way different from us.

The assumed priors make zombies impossible for Eliezer, and give Chalmers and Richard no way of actually knowing if the zombies in Zombie World are really zombies, other than that Chalmers and Richard both say that they are zombies.

My question to Richard (should he ever come back, I'm two years late after all) is this: how do you know you aren't a zombie?