[ExI] Bringing new life to dead matter

[Natasha Vita-More]

LOL! 

Natasha Vita-More
Chairman, Humanity+ 
CCO, esDesign <emerging / speculative media>
PhD Researcher, Univ. of Plymouth, UK

Editor, The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and ContemporaryEssays on the
Science, 
Technology and Philosophy of the Human Future

"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true.  Oscar Wilde
 (But is this true then?)


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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Bringing new life to dead matter

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
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