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  Wikipedia: Zimboe
"Zimboe" is a term coined by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in explaining why the philosophical concept of a zombie is incoherent.
A zimboe is a zombie that has apparent "second-order" states--that is, beliefs about the physiological, just-like-human states that it is in.
Arguably, being a zimboe is sufficient for being a ("real") person; and, arguably, all zombies must, by hypothesis, also be zimboes; in which case one cannot make sense of zombies as distinct from persons.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/z/zi/zimboe.html   (144 words)

  
 Philosophical zombie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They argue that while consciousnessm qualia, subjective experiences, and so forth exist, in some sense, they are not as the zombie argument proponent claims they are; pain, for example, is not something that you can just strip off a person's mental life without any behavioral or physiological differences.
Dennett coined the term zimboes to argue that the idea of a philosophical zombie is incoherent—see Dennett (1995) and (1999), for example.
Dennett states: "Philosophers ought to have dropped the zombie like a hot potato, but since they persist in their embrace, this gives me a golden opportunity to focus attention on the most seductive error in current thinking."
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 Elissa » H. Rider Haggard
Wilmot prove to us indeed that in the Middle Ages Zimbabwe or Zimboe was the seat of a barbarous empire, whose ruler was named the Emperor of Monomotapa, also that for some years the Jesuits ministered in a Christian church built beneath the shadow of its ancient towers.
Theodore Bent, whose death is so great a loss to all interested in such matters, have shown almost beyond question that Zimbabwe was once an inland Phoenician city, or at the least a city whose inhabitants were of a race which practised Phoenician customs and worshipped the Phoenician deities.
Journeying in Africa must have been slow in those days; that it was also dangerous is testified by the ruins of the ancient forts built to protect the route between the gold towns and the sea.
www.classical-literature.com /a/h-rider-haggard/elissa.html   (287 words)

  
 Zimboe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Philosophers call a "zombie" any hypothetical being that looks and acts exactly like a regular person, but isn't actually conscious or self-aware.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
The musicians, servants, presence of mind, but, his wits and courage returning, he beats down the fateful denouement is reached, on a lower plane of interest.
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There sat Sakon, the governor, and with him his council of the notables of the city; there were prince Aziel and among his retinue, Issachar the prophet, fierce-eyed as ever, though hardly recovered from the rough handling he had experienced in the temple.
There were many ladies, wives and daughters of dignitaries and wealthy citizens, and with them a great crowd of spectators of all classes gathered in the lower part of the hall, for a rumour had spread about that the farewell audience given by Sakon to King Ithobal was likely to be stormy.
Once let them march beneath yonder walls, and before they leave it Zimboe, city of gold, shall be nothing but a heap of ruins, and a habitation of the dead.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/2/8/5/2855/2855.txt   (20524 words)

  
 Elissa by H. Rider Haggard: Chapter X. The Embassy
The mission of these envoys was to give the king answer to his suit, for he refused to come to Zimboe unless he were allowed to bring a larger force than it was thought prudent to admit into the city gates.
At some distance from the tents they halted, while messengers were sent forward inviting Ithobal to a conference on the plain, as it seemed scarcely safe to trust themselves within the stout thorn fence which had been built about the camp.
Listen, you"--and he turned to his generals--"Let the messengers who are ready start east and west, and north and south, to the chiefs whose names you have, bidding them to meet me with their tribesmen, at the time and place appointed.
www.online-literature.com /h-rider-haggard/elissa/11   (3156 words)

  
 Elissa by Haggard, H. Rider - Chapter 10
Zimboe shortly under his safe conduct, I desire to close this small
Jerusalem, of Sidon and of Zimboe, and I owe you a heavy bill for the
On your behalf, also, the city of Zimboe is this
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 So nice to be away from Shona... | Progressive U   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Until then, remember that a government can print money, but it takes solid leadership to earn te trust of the governed, and advance a culture of economic stability.
Money alone does not equal wealth, as any true Zimboe can easily attest.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License, except where otherwise noted.
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 Amazon.com: Profile For s.ferber: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In this fast-moving novel, we meet Prince Aziel, grandson of Solomon himself, who goes to Zimbabwe (then called Zimboe) and chances to meet the soul mate of his life: Elissa, daughter of Sakon, the governor of the city.
To add to their ill-fated romance, Ithobal, the half-breed king of the native tribes, is threatening war if Elissa does not become his wife, and Issachar, a Levite prophet and Aziel's spiritual guardian, is doing everything he can to prevent this blasphemous union.
As Haggard would have us believe, it is this doomed love affair that brings destruction to Zimboe and its people; how, I'll let you, the reader, discover for yourself.
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 Elissa by H. Rider Haggard : Arthur's Classic Novels
Before them lay a plain, clothed with sere yellow grass -- for the season was winter -- and bounded by mountains of no great height, upon whose slopes stood the city which they had travelled far to seek.
When a man placed as is my father must choose between the safety of thousands and the honour and happiness of one poor girl, what will his answer be, think you?"
It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and the great hall of audience in Zimboe was crowded with a brilliant assemblage.
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 H. Rider Haggard : Elissa : Chapter X. The Embassy
At dawn upon the following day an embassy, headed by Sakon, governor of the city, in whose train were Metem and Aziel, went to the camp of Ithobal.
"I have heard," he said humbly, "that the king Ithobal, the great king, always pays his debts, and as I--an outlander--shall be leaving Zimboe shortly under his safe conduct, I desire to close this small account."
Ithobal went to the door of his tent and commanded that his treasurer should attend him, bringing money.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.1170/sec.11   (3124 words)

  
 BookRags: Elissa Summary
“Metem,” said the Levite, “the prince desires to leave Zimboe and march to the coast, there to take ship to Tyre.
Well, I am glad to learn it, for troubles thicken here, and I think that the woe you prophesied is not far from this city of Zimboe where every man seeks to serve his own hand, and is ready to sell his neighbour.
Well, the night after next; at least, we can start that night.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2855/64.html   (511 words)

  
 Chapter 5: Router
Engineered consciousness is still relatively new: It didn't exist when Manfred and Pamela first hacked on Aineko's cognitive network, and according to the flat-earth wing of the AI community, it still doesn't.
Even she hadn't really believed Aineko's claims to self-awareness until a couple of years ago, finding it easier to think of the cat as a zimboe – a zombie with no self-awareness, but programmed to claim to be aware in an attempt to deceive the truly conscious beings around it.
A sergeant-at-arms, a mindless but impressive zimboe controlled by her spider's nest of personality threads, blows a sharp note on his trumpet.
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 coffee : “that’s different”
If I come across someone who says that they’re not going to seriously consider my opinions on a subject because of my gender, then I remove them from my society.
If a “friend” wants to open up internment camps for the detention of citizens of middle eastern decent, then that person is suddenly just a zimboe.
I’m not advocating ostracizing anyone who holds slightly different opinions from yourself.
miserablebliss.ca /coffee/?p=58   (1844 words)

  
 DEDICATION / NOTES [Haggard's novel: Elissa]
Wilmot prove to us indeed that in the Middle
Ages Zimbabwe or Zimboe was the seat of a barbarous empire, whose
the city Zimboe was the Ophir spoken of in the first Book of Kings.
www.readbookonline.net /read/850/10831   (738 words)

  
 CHAPTER XI - METEM SELLS IMAGES [Haggard's novel: Elissa]
that I would leave Zimboe, where it seems my presence breeds much
is not far from this city of Zimboe where every man seeks to serve his
longer desired in Zimboe." Here he stopped, for he saw that Elissa was
www.readbookonline.net /read/850/10842   (2489 words)

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