Re: faith, zombies, and crazy people (was America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist)

[Jochen Fromm-5]

I hear only Zombies all the time, have you watched too much Resident Evil films?

-J.

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Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Robert,

 

I am sure my colleagues will see immediately the fallacy in your argument:  that it is a case of an Ad-Zombium argument.

 

Furthermore, it stipulates that Zombies have a mental life, since a mental life would seem to be necessary for pigheadedness, madness, OR solipsism.  And since a Cartesian Zombie is defined as something without a mental life, your argument concerns a zero set. 

 

So there!

 

Nick

 

PS.  Did you mean sophistry?  Or Sollipsism.  I have to get my insults straight, here. 

 

From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:31 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people (was America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist)

 

Here's some grounds for denying the non-zombie's account of his zombieness: the non-zombie is mad or pig-headed or over-familiar with solipsism. Or a combination of all three.

 

—R

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Robert,

<snip>So, there can be no grounds (that I can think off), for denying a non-zombie’s account that he is a zombie. 

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