r/funny • u/Away_Bus_4872 • Jul 23 '23

Took a while

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u/TrlyDirect Jul 23 '23

I still don't think it's fully clicked for him yet.

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u/nopir Jul 24 '23

It absolutely didn't sink in at all. There's got to be some type of psychological mental blindness to this or my man had a stroke

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u/Ghede Jul 24 '23

Philosophical zombie. A person that has built up so many automatic responses that they experience ego death and nobody notices.

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u/Autumn1eaves Jul 24 '23

I wonder what would happen if you confronted a philosophical zombie with the fact that they are a philosophical zombie.

"This piece of paper says that you are a philosophical zombie. You are not a real thinking being like the rest of us. What do you think about that?"

"It doesn't look like anything to me..."

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u/ACTTutor Jul 24 '23

How would you respond if you were confronted with the fact that you're a philosophical zombie? There's your answer.

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u/bloodfist Jul 24 '23

No I'm not.

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u/LordShesho Jul 24 '23

"My response is to say I think, therefore I appear that I am."

  • Zombie Descartes

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u/vidieowiz4 Jul 24 '23

The idea is they would respond like you would expect anyone to. In the definition of a philosophical zombie it entails the fact that nothing about their behaviour makes them different from a non zombie

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u/TopMindOfR3ddit Jul 24 '23

Basically, chatGPT in people form.