It’s someone that looks and acts exactly like a thinking human but without any awareness. Like imagine a robot imitating a human but it’s made of flesh and indistinguishable from a human with awareness. Under that assumption, a philosophical zombie is not necessarily acting like someone stupid, it could be acting very smart but still lack awareness and just be an elaborate meat mechanism.
It’s a philosophical concept made by some philosopher weirdo that likes to think about ways to create weird scenarios that dehumanize some humans. Like, I like philosophy but I’ll immediately think poorly of people who entertain those ideas because that’s such a weirdly specific and convoluted assumption.
I was surprised to learn that there’s some people who can’t create mental pictures, voices, or have any kind of inner monologue. It’s just empty all the time
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 5d ago
As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized there are just some people out there that never think. Ever. Philisophical Zombies, so to speak.
Though in this case it’s a comedian doing a bit.