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We Seem To Be Zombies

Are we just walking, talking calculating machines who are pre-destined to hug? Benjamin Husmann/via Flickr hide caption

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

We Seem To Be Zombies

December 20, 2010 • As you read this blog, many of you do not know that, according to some of our finest scientific minds, you are not conscious at all. You are a mechanical zombie, a calculating-machine idiot. You have no responsible free will.

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