Episode
TRC #718: Philosophical Zombies + Vampires and Tuberculosis
- Podcast
- The Reality Check
- Published
- Oct 21, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 1658
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Summary
With Halloween coming up we bring you some spooky segments on zombies and vampires! Darren looks at the thought experiment about philosophical zombies also known as p-zombies. Does this idea make that much sense? Then Adam looks at cases of tuberculosis taking place in New England which, to people without a proper understanding of the germ theory of disease, were thought to be vampirism.