I am curious if the people you encounter in your dreams count as p-zombies or if they contribute anything to the discussion. This might need to be a whole post or it might be total nonsense. When in the dream, they feel like real people and from my limited reading, lucid dreaming does not universally break this. Are they conscious? If they are not conscious can you prove that? Accepting that dream characters are conscious seems absurd. Coming up with an experiment to show they are not seems impossible. Therefore p-zombies?
idk about you, but the characters in my dream act nowhere near how real people act, I’m just too stupid in my dreams to realize how inconsistent and strange their actions are.
They certainly act weird but not universally so and no weirder than you act in your own dreams, perhaps not even weirder than someone drunk. We might characterize those latter states as being unconscious or semi-conscious in some way but that feels wrong. Yes, I know that dreams happen when you’re asleep and hence unconscious but I think that is a bastardization of the term in this case. Also, my intuition is that if a someone in real life acted as weirdly as a the weirdest dream character did, that would qualify them as mentally ill but not as a p-zombie.
I am curious if the people you encounter in your dreams count as p-zombies or if they contribute anything to the discussion. This might need to be a whole post or it might be total nonsense. When in the dream, they feel like real people and from my limited reading, lucid dreaming does not universally break this. Are they conscious? If they are not conscious can you prove that? Accepting that dream characters are conscious seems absurd. Coming up with an experiment to show they are not seems impossible. Therefore p-zombies?
idk about you, but the characters in my dream act nowhere near how real people act, I’m just too stupid in my dreams to realize how inconsistent and strange their actions are.
They certainly act weird but not universally so and no weirder than you act in your own dreams, perhaps not even weirder than someone drunk. We might characterize those latter states as being unconscious or semi-conscious in some way but that feels wrong. Yes, I know that dreams happen when you’re asleep and hence unconscious but I think that is a bastardization of the term in this case. Also, my intuition is that if a someone in real life acted as weirdly as a the weirdest dream character did, that would qualify them as mentally ill but not as a p-zombie.