In my usual view, all of mathematics is a priori and does not evolve, so the number 2 cannot be caused. But if you treat Peano's axioms as a computational generator operating on a Platonic substrate, then 2 is caused by a metamathematical machine executing Peano's axioms.
Oh, but I *am* a p-zombie, as far as I know! I think I can show that my conscious experience is a fake memory.
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Do go on?
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I experience myself as acting on the here and now, with synchronized sensory modalities, which is all clearly impossible. I cannot even have a time-delayed experience, because of the duration of the sense-act loop.
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We are all p zombies.
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Except for Jesus. It must have been so weird for him
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