You could probably get sufficiently-twisted kids to do this on the usual Halloween. Dress them up as professors of philosophy or something; it’d be far scarier than zombie costumes. (This would actually be fantastic.)
Alternately, dress up as a zombie philosopher and shamble around moaning “quaaaalia” instead of “braaaains”.
Last Halloween i dressed as a P-zombie. I explained to anybody who would listen that i had the same physical composition as a conscious human being, but was not in fact conscious. I’m not sure that any of them were convinced that i really was in costume.
For this to be really convincing and spoooky, you could stay in character:
Halloween party attendant: Hi radical_negative_one, what are you dressed as? confederate: radical_negative_one is a p-zombie, who acts just like a real person but is not actually conscious! radical_negative_one: That’s not true, I am conscious! I have qualia and an inner life and everything!
radical_negative_one: (To confederate:) No, you’re the p-zombie, not me! (To Halloween party attendant:) They’re getting everywhere, you know. They look and act just like you and me, physically you can’t tell, but they have no soul! They’re just dead things!! They sound like us, but nothing they say means anything, it’s just noises coming out of a machine!!! Your best friend could be a p-zombie!!!! All your friends could be p-zombies!!!!!
confederate It’s all true! And he’s one of them! Say, how do I know you’re not a zombie?
Alternately, dress up as a zombie philosopher and shamble around moaning “quaaaalia” instead of “braaaains”.
Last Halloween i dressed as a P-zombie. I explained to anybody who would listen that i had the same physical composition as a conscious human being, but was not in fact conscious. I’m not sure that any of them were convinced that i really was in costume.
For this to be really convincing and spoooky, you could stay in character:
Halloween party attendant: Hi radical_negative_one, what are you dressed as?
confederate: radical_negative_one is a p-zombie, who acts just like a real person but is not actually conscious!
radical_negative_one: That’s not true, I am conscious! I have qualia and an inner life and everything!
radical_negative_one: (To confederate:) No, you’re the p-zombie, not me! (To Halloween party attendant:) They’re getting everywhere, you know. They look and act just like you and me, physically you can’t tell, but they have no soul! They’re just dead things!! They sound like us, but nothing they say means anything, it’s just noises coming out of a machine!!! Your best friend could be a p-zombie!!!! All your friends could be p-zombies!!!!!
confederate It’s all true! And he’s one of them! Say, how do I know you’re not a zombie?
confederate: No, radical_negative_one. You are the demons
And then radical_negative_one was a zombie.