[ExI] Subject: Re: free will.

Ben Zaiboc bbenzai at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 27 22:08:20 UTC 2011


Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com> wrote:

>Sorry, by 'free will' I meant "the qualia one feels when he or she does the
>thing which people usually call 'making a decision.'"
>
>Unless of course,  John, you are a zombie!

Yes, he is a zombie.  As am I, and you, and everyone else, who has ever, or ever will, live.

Let's just accept that all living thinking feeling beings are zombies.  
Zombies who have the experience of having these things that don't actually exist, that some of us call 'qualia'.
It will make things much simpler.

Ben Zaiboc




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