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title: 'I-Zombies: Hard Problem of Unconsciousness'
author: Gwern
description: "N/A"
created: 2011-12-18
modified: 2022-01-08
status: finished
importance: N/A
confidence: log
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\[Discussion of "inverse *p*-zombies" via excerpts of ["Inverse zombies, anesthesia awareness, and the hard problem of unconsciousness"](/doc/psychology/neuroscience/pain/anesthesia/2008-mashour.pdf), Mashour & LaRock 2008: the problem of telling when someone *is* conscious but otherwise appears and acts unconscious.\]
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