“Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.

*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!”

—  Daniel Dennett, book Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained (1991), p. 406

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