Stereotypes In The Movies, By David Chalmers

Personality change, clumsiness, unconsciousness, and the urge to bite. Can all be associated with characteristics of a zombie. This popular phenomenon has been a popular topic in the past decade in films such as “I am Legend” (2007), “Zombieland” (2009), and “World War Z” (2013). And the theme has also even made it into American television such as “The Walking Dead” (2010). Which has caused discussions of can zombies physically exist? Is the idea so farfetched? However, philosophers do not associate zombies with the animated representation of “rotting, flesh-eating, rising from the dead” like they are presented in films and television. In The Stone Reader philosophers have defined zombies as “physically identical to you or me but utterly lacking in internal subjective experience” (Catapano., Peter, & Critchley., Simon, 2016, p.296). Which brings us back to the opening sentence, all these characteristics that we associate with zombies are symptoms of sleeping sickness, sleep walking and rabies along with many more diseases that have the characteristics of a zombie. Similarly, how philosophers have defined what a zombie is, philosophical arguments such as dualism, materialism, and epiphenomenalism can prove that it is possible that zombies can physically exist in our world.

Are brains connect zombies with the end to modern society. Today in modern times everyone is dependent of technology and are society, that going away is terrifying. It terrifies me thinking about having my life taken away from me. I don't want to to give up my minute rice, 24/7 TV, and double stuff Oreos. And I'm sure everyone feels the same way. How we live is like a old sweater we constantly wear and the dryer is like the zombies, you can picture your sweater being destroyed by the dryer. I know it's a strange metaphor, but for some reason it seems to fit. Zombies represent are ever present fear of destruction and fear of evil taking over the living and the dead. In a way when you kill a zombie it's still technically a human body, so really your afraid of other people and even yourself. If you turn you would hurt other people, become a monster that you were afraid of. Becoming what you fear is a huge them when it comes to zombies, assuming that the zombies are the type that can turn you of course. As I once said before, zombies are associated with destruction which can also be taken as a sign of disapproval of

My zombie is the result of a severe psychosis condition. Although many different more specific disorders may be responsible for this more broad conclusion, the psychosis condition my zombie is experiencing causes an altered state of reality, or severe hallucinations. While my zombie is in fact a zombie in her mind, she is, in reality, no more deranged than any other mortal human. Her altered perception of the world around her has caused her to believe she is a brain-eating, horrific zombie. As does any other, or most, cases of extreme hallucinations, it does eventually come to an end as Halloween and the month of October also wean away the other supernatural creatures lurking in her hallucination. This twisted experience of reality did not,

I was staring into the eyes of that zombie. They were gray, dead, emotionless, and looking back at me.

Zombies aren’t real… Right? They aren’t in a true sense; there aren’t corpses digging themselves from the grave and following us around. However, people who suffer from Cotard’s Delusion, or Walking Dead Syndrome, believe they are dead and/ or missing body parts. In 2013, approximately one thousand people were HIT, AFFECTED by Cotard’s, which is a miniscule percentage of the population.

I initiate the discourse on the purpose of consciousness by first introducing Night of the Living Dead, as an effort to reveal an intuitive claim as a running theme of the movie: consciousness is what distinguishes me from the living dead. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead can teach us about what our assumptions on the purpose of higher consciousness by having it be the root feature that distinguishes the living from the undead. When Johnny dies and his corpse comes back from the local cemetery, the consciousness of his mind is left behind—there remains only emptiness inside the zombie. As his consciousness vanishes, so does the person that we used call Johnny—the corpse itself is now just a mindless shell. The Romero zombie comes back as completely subject to the zombie law of nature; leaving behind the mind, all that they can do is what a zombie does—and all zombies devour. The absolute mindlessness that characterizes the zombies in Romero’s creation, reflects on the idea, that, a free-acting human being can be reduced to nothing more than a mindless corpse by stripping away their consciousness.

Most of the time when you think of the word zombie, you think of a walking corpse that will eat your face as soon as it gets the chance. What if we thought of zombies as an animal that is brought back from the dead? Well, in that case, zombies have been around for a while. According to David Casarett, author of Reanimated Chickens and Zombie Dogs, for over two-hundred years, scientist have pushed relentlessly at life’s terminus, trying to find new ways to bring people back from the dead when their hearts stop. There are many scientist that even grew famous for these discoveries, theories and experiments. There are a few that may be disturbing to some readers, but they are worth the mention.

The meaning of the word zombie has shifted in public perception rather drastically a number of times over the last fifty years largely as a result of their rise in popularity in the zeitgeist. What we think of as zombies today are largely myth of course, but there is a grain of truth. It dates back to the 8th century, (possibly earlier according to some speculation in fact) the word 'zombie ' is said to have come from nzambi, which in Kongo means 'spirit of a dead person ', or zonbi, used in the Louisiana or Haitian Creole that represents a person who died and was then brought to life without speech or free will. For the purposes of this paper I’ll be tracing the Haitian route. (Zombies: A Living History)

There is no way for a dead person to come back to life, at least not yet. The type of zombies these scientists prove to be true are still living people but they exhibit the classical characteristics of a zombie.

Zombies are something that everybody knows about. They are in games, movies, TV shows, books and comics. Everyone has a different idea of zombies but the one thing that everyone asks is that if a zombie apocalypse could really happen. It is possible for a zombie apocalypse to happen. There are a lot of reasons why but it wouldn’t be like the zombie apocalypse in the movies. There are also a lot of reasons why a zombie apocalypse would happen.

Although the zombie genre has been around for many decades, zombies have recently gained popularity in today's society by connecting with the consciousness of humanity through self-identification of exaggerated human characteristics. The unwanted characteristics that we see in ourselves, such as violence, illness, and lack of control, have been transformed into the modern day zombie. The zombie genre originated in 1819 from Haitian culture, which involved voodoo and witchcraft. The characteristics of the average zombie included slow motor movements, decaying flesh, and general stupidity from the lack of consciousness. Zombies were just walking corpses, but as time progressed, so did the zombie.

John Adams describes zombie fiction as being centered on the concept of fighting against an unstoppable enemy. This enemy is dead, and is most often slow, but never quits (Adams, 2008). This concept of the dead refusing to rest has roots that date back farther than written history. Kimberly Powell,

Elizabeth walks up to Suzy and starts a conversation. Then she dies. It was so sad. But who died? Everyone went to Elizabeth's funeral. But wait. Did she die? Or did Elizabeth die? But Suzy was at Elizabeth's funeral. But Suzy could be a zombie. And Elizabeth could be faking death to escape the zombies. But then, Suzy could be a normal human and Elizabeth could think it's a zombie apocalypse in her mind. Or Elizabeth could be a zombie. After the funeral, Suzy flew to Chili. Then, Elizabeth slowly got out of her coffin. Or did she? Or is she a zombie? While Suzy is on the plane, she teleports Elizabeth(alive or dead, we don't know) to her. But now, the teleportation made Elizabeth a zombie. But the real

For someone to act like a zombie is to be bored. It also means to be routine. Another word definition for it is paralysis. Other words are blissfully happy and panic.

The first issue of zombies is determining if they are alive or dead. If they are rational beings that follow a set of moral code that is that they are moral agents that can demonstrate a capacity of morality .The other option is that they are moral patients who are not rational or moral. Since zombies are fictional beings it is hard to define them as one thing or another. In Thompson’s essay “She’s Not Your Mother Anymore. She’s a Zombie!”:Zombies, Values, and Personal Identity he explains that, “Zombies present us with beings who appear to be alive, but who lack the rich mental life that we associate with “normal” persons. Their decay and disintegration is rather more indicative of death than life.”(30) In horror movies they come in all shapes and sizes. Some are fast some are slow,