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I'm a zombie without any consciousness but never realized it until last week. I just go about my day like an automaton without any internal subjective experience and am perfectly happy doing so. I was talking to my friends and they were saying "it feels like there's somebody actually inside of me, experiencing things" and I was like "Oh that's funny, I don't have that sort of feeling at all." (kidding)


There is a legitimate term for this, by the way, and it is "p-zombie" or "philosophical zombie".

It is an important concept in the philosophy of mind.


In theory, this is possible - in fact, I think Oliver Sacks (RIP) wrote about something very close to this in one of his books; probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...


You joke but there are examples at least back to the 1700s: "Simon Browne: the soul-murdered theologian", Berman 1996 https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/1996-berman.pdf




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