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Undead Zombies? No. I’m no virologist, but I’ve read about a Rabies variety, or certain fungal infections. Fiction-wise, World War Z, or 28 Days type “zombies”, where the body is very much functioning, but the brain has been hijacked…
Which in theory with any sort of living zombie all you’d need to do is wait out the zombies for a few weeks/months while they inevitably starve to death.
all you’d need to do is wait out the zombies for a few weeks/months
Because wht we learned in the last couple of years is humanity as a whole is totally capable of isolating for a few months without issues
Feel like watching your neighbor eat the face off of your other neighbor is a little bit more motivation to stay inside than a microscopic virus. Then again, it isn’t the most wise thing to bet against human stupidity
Yeah but what if you run out of toilet paper?
Then I started blasting.
Yes but in a different way than literal. Zombie movies tap into a fear of a real-life monster called The Mob. When people become part of a Mob, they lose their humanity, and will destroy you mindlessly.
Like, if you see an angry mob coming your way, you need to treat it like a zombie situation. And the instinctual, evolved fear of that mob is exactly what zombie movies evoke in us.
I never saw it like that but it makes sense tbf
Yup. And so, in a way, zombies are a real possibilities.
A zombie, an undead creature who craves human flesh, isn’t a real possibility (yet).
But zombies, as a situation a person might have to deal with, actually can happen. You’re boarding up the windows. They’re walking by outside, at a steady pace. You’re hoping they don’t notice you.
A mob coming up the street is a slow zombie horde. They’re just slowly filling the street.
A mob that targets you is a fast zombie situation. You need to sprint and will die if caught. You won’t get eaten but you will get beat to death which is basically the same kind of death.
Guns are useless: you’ve got limited ammo and it draws more of them.
And finally the feeling is eerie because people in a mob don’t see you as a person. Being part of a mob is an instinctual experience. It shifts the psychology and cuts out deliberation and inhibition. Members of a mob are in an altered state of mind, which creates an eerie, inhuman feeling.
Define “zombie”.
IF “zombie” means a hominid with reactions, but no considered-reasoning,
THEN all sorts of factions are manufacturing such right now, globally, in order that THEIR ideology/prejudice addiction gain supremacism, exterminating considered-reasoning AND all other factions.
The Great Filter.
All the different political/religious/cultural/ideological factions are just “makeup” on top of that fundamental difference.
Will Kahneman System-1 ( animal-reaction, programmed-reaction, conditioned-reaction, etc ) displace Kahneman System-2 from authority/power enough that the entire planet can be butchered & laid-waste?
Toss a coin.
It isn’t looking good for this world.
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Of the type often seen in movies where the body is rotten, no. Dead tissue doesn’t move.
However, there are approximations:
For starters there’s a type of fungus that hijacks ants, using it to spread its spores into other ants. It can control the ants movement to the point where it will cause the and to go to certain good spore-spread8ng places before the ant is devoured.
Then there’s the disease that affects raindeer in some places. I don’t remember the illness, but basically the mind goes byebye while the body is left to be controlled by less and less sophisticated parts of the brain, to the point where the animal can do nothing but walk in circles.
CWD is a prion, which is terrifying. that’s also why it can live on corpses and even survive in vegetation
imagine being a spore and becoming conscious inside an ant, with an animal’s brain.
That’s NOT how those spores work bro, they don’t gain cousciousness lmao
Also, ants aren’t even conscious themselfs
EDIT: Typos.
probably yeah but its a lot of fun to imagine
Agree, that’s funny lol
