yeeup. the whole p-zombie argument is the ontological argument at its core: that playing with words and thinking about words tells you facts about the universe of empirical import, rather than giving you hypotheses for testing.

note also how the p-zombie argument is specifically framed to be empirically nondisprovable.

the “hard problems” of philosophy are largely those of convincing philosophers of things their hearts are set against.



zombies! the movie remains the best lesswrong article ever written of course.

