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Ontological Zombies
P [L] Shambling Undead

The zombie argument is a thought experiment that states "there is a possible world in which there exist zombies". Zombies are organisms that appear to have consciousness and qualia, but in reality do not. Also, in this case the zombies have to be identical copies of organisms in the actual or other possible world.

It has been argued under reductive physicalism, that one must either believe that anyone including oneself might be a zombie, or that no one can be a zombie - following from the assertion that one's own conviction about being (or not being) a zombie is a product of the physical world and is therefore no different from anyone else's. This argument has been expressed by Dennett who argues that "Zombies think they are conscious, think they have qualia, think they suffer pains - they are just 'wrong' (according to this lamentable tradition), in ways that neither they nor we could ever discover!"

The possibility of zombies would also entail that mental states do not supervene upon physical states, a claim that the reductionist physicalist is committed to, and Australian philosopher David Chalmers argues that the coherent conceivability of a zombie entails a metaphysical possibility. It has also been explained by arguing that the zombie argument rests on the concept of the nature of qualia. If certain non-physical properties exist which match our conception of qualia, then such non-physical properties would be qualia, and zombies would be conceivable and metaphysically possible. However, if there are no non-physical properties, then what we think of as qualia are the physical properties which perform the functional tasks of what we conceive of as qualia. In this scenario, zombies would not be metaphysically possible.
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Player Ma St Ag Av Skills Inj G Cp Td It Cs Mvp SPP Cost  
1
Quine
Mummy
3 5 1 9
Mighty Blow, Regeneration
   7 0 0 0 2 0 4/6 120k
(120+0)k
  
2
Rousseau
Mummy
3 5 1 9
Mighty Blow, Regeneration
Guard, Stand Firm, Break Tackle
 n, m 27 0 0 0 8 4 36/51 180k
(0)k
  
3
Berkeley
Wight Blitzer
6 3 3 8
Block, Regeneration
   2 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 90k
(90+0)k
  
4
Hegel
Wight Blitzer
7 3 4 8
Block, Regeneration
Guard, +AG, +MA
   27 3 8 0 7 1 46/51 180k
(90+90)k
  
5
Montesquieu
Ghoul Runner
7 3 3 7
Dodge
Block
   6 1 1 0 1 0 6/16 90k
(70+20)k
  
6
Leibniz
Ghoul Runner
7 3 3 7
Dodge
   2 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 70k
(70+0)k
  
7
Locke
Ghoul Runner
7 3 3 7
Dodge
   6 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 70k
(70+0)k
  
8
Plotinus
Zombie
4 3 2 8
Regeneration
Dirty Player
   15 0 0 0 1 1 7/16 60k
(40+20)k
  
9
Spinoza
Zombie
4 3 2 8
Regeneration
   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 40k
(40+0)k
  
10
Pascal
Ghoul Runner
7 3 3 7
Dodge
   0 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 70k
(70+0)k
  
11
Lucretius
Zombie
4 3 2 8
Regeneration
   0 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 40k
(40+0)k
  
12
Camus
Zombie
4 3 2 8
Regeneration
   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 40k
(40+0)k
  
11 players (+1 player missing next game)  
Coach: TaoJones Re-Rolls (140k): 4  
Race: Shambling Undead Fan Factor: 7  
Current Team Value: 1220k Assistant Coaches: 0  
Treasury: 60k Cheerleaders: 0  
Team Value: 1400k Apothecary: No  

Games Played:27 (11/3/13) |TD Diff:-8 (31 - 39) |Cas Diff:9 (31/23/13 - 31/14/13)
Last Opponent: Tributes to Hunger