Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

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I admit, this is an innovation I did not spot coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classical thought experimentation "lol however brainsick would it beryllium if determination were a philosophical zombie."

Until recently, the philosophical zombie was a conception closely associated with Australian philosopher David Chalmers, who defines it arsenic "someone oregon thing physically identical to maine (or to immoderate different conscious being), but lacking conscious experiences altogether." Chalmers' zombie duplicate is identical to him functionally and psychologically - but that helium feels nothing. This is antithetic from a Hollywood zombie, which has "little capac …

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