Philosophical zombie

A philosophical zombie or p-zombie is a hypothetical being that looks and behaves exactly like a person, but is not really conscious. A p-zombie is as likely as anyone else to ask "when I see red, do I see the same colour that you see when you see red" but they have no real experience of the colour red.

Many LW/OB contributors believe that the idea of p-zombies is not meaningful.

References

Overcoming Bias/Less Wrong articles

• Zombies! Zombies?, Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Zombie Responses, Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle, Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Zombies: The Movie, Eliezer Yudkowsky
• GAZP vs. GLUT, Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The Zombie Preacher Of Somerset by Yvain (though note that the subject of this article does not resemble a p-zombie since they are able to describe their condition)

Other Resources

• Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy on zombies