[ExI] Bringing new life to dead matter

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2012-06-09 17:31, BillK wrote:
> I have to say that all the zombies I've met don't seem to be very philosophical.
>
> You can't have very deep discussions while they are trying to eat your brains.

Philosophical zombies also eat your brains, but they do it *using* deep 
discussions. I suspect they are particularly common among philosophers 
of mind: I always come away from those discussions with a headache and a 
feeling I am missing a part of my brain.

(Ethicists are much nicer, they just steal your wallet.)


-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University