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Nov 15, 2020 · Most obvious is the way zombies move. Their typical gait is wide and lumbering with their arms out, reaching for your brains. There are three main areas in the brain that control movement: the cortico-motor area, basal ganglia and the cerebellum. Damage to the cerebellum has the most visually obvious effect on a zombie’s walk.
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Nov 18, 2014 · Neuroscience is also incredibly complex, which makes it hard to accurately communicate to the non-scientific lay public the reality of the field. So we use zombies as a hook.
- The Psychology of The Philosophical Zombie
- The Psychology of Modeling Another Person's Consciousness
- The Psychology of Modeling Our Own Consciousness
- Final Words on Zombies and The Psychology of Consciousness
When you think about it, just about everything we do can be done without consciousness. Imagine interacting with a person, who looks and acts just like a person, but is in fact, a zombie. If you were to pinch them, they would recoil their hand reflexively but without actually experiencing any internal pain. Similarly, there might be zombies that be...
Humans are inherently social creatures. Our sociality may even be the hallmark of our species: We’re not the fastest or the fiercest, but we have a greater capacity to work together than any other animal. To navigate the social world, we have to understand who we’re interacting with. Not just what they look like, or what they’re doing, but what it'...
How do we get from social cognition to our own consciousness? We know that we have an advanced system to effortlessly and automatically monitor the conscious state of others. We also know that we must have a system in the brain that gives rise to our own consciousness. Could these systems be one and the same? This idea is core to the Attention Sche...
Whether of our own, or someone else's, the brain creates a model of consciousness. And just like we can’t be certain of the contents of another person’s mind, we can’t completely understand our own mind either. Only a very small percentage of the brain’s neuronal processing ultimately reaches this space of conscious awareness. Even while you read t...
Zombies possess no long-term memories. “Zombies are very impulsive and have emotional disruption,” Verstynen says. But this differs from their inability to remember. The duo suspects that if ...
Oct 5, 2018 · The zombie apocalypse narrative allows us to feel the fear, to debate moral quandaries, to consider our own ability to survive and to wonder what makes a person human. Similar to war in general (MacMillan, 2018), the zombie apocalypse brings out the best and worst qualities of human beings and we are fascinated by it.
May 22, 2024 · Aktipis: You have your toilet paper—exactly. Make sure you have your toilet paper. So, yeah, in my go bag, I have a lot of stuff, honestly, but I focus on having an emergency blanket; water or a ...
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Jul 26, 2016 · Zombies belong to the realm of horror stories that reappear over and over throughout history – from ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day sci-fi – because they raise a more terrifying fear than merely that of a gory death: the threat of eternal life. Apeirophobia – the fear of the infinite or eternal – might seem ridiculous at first.
