[ExI] Implications of Sociopath Testing

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 14:36:10 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
>This is like a variation on the philosophical zombie
> argument: what if someone *honestly believed* that everyone else was a
> zombie (or equivalently, that no-one else's feelings mattered even if
> they did have feelings) but was committed to behave as if they weren't
> because it would make life easier for him?

Why, isn't supposing that other subjects have (similar to yours)
feelings simply a projection, "hallucinating" in NLP terminology? :-)

Stefano Vaj



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