Coup Poudre: The Existence Of Zombies And How They Are Creation

What makes us alive and what makes the zombies dead or undead? Well it all has to with neuroscience and most importantly the brain. The biggest question is what the requirements of life are? The requirements are the process to maintain homeostasis and the ability to adapt to changes. Do zombies maintain homeostasis for the undead couldn’t cause of the decay wouldn’t be able to because it couldn’t respond to change in the environment and don’t the ability to heal or repair. Unlike the livening dead would be able to adjust to the changes also could maintain the in the internal environment.

The zombie argument presents an idea meant to prove that consciousness doesn’t necessarily logically supervene on the physical. In this example there exists a zombie, defined as “someone or something physically identical to me ( or any other conscious being) but lacking conscious experiences altogether.” (Chalmers,94) Zombie world is then defined as “a world physically identical to ours,but in which there are no conscious experiences at all. In such a world, everyone is a zombie.” (Chalmers, 94) In this idea, only “phenomenal zombies” are to be considered meaning zombies that are “physically and functionally identical ( as us) , but which lack experience” (Chalmers 95) There are five main arguments that stand behind this idea, the first two being ideas regarding conceivability, the second two arguments of epistemology and the fifth and argument of analysis.

Zombies continue to keep their popularity alive through the entertainment industry. Zombies have been around for years now with no sign of leaving anytime soon. In the story Max Brooks suggests that zombies have given the other horror movie monsters a run for their money because, zombies are the only monsters that keep their popularity going strong in today’s society. I enjoyed the way Max Brooks shows the reader that he is a fan of zombies and thinks that zombies have been dominating the entertainment industry.

In “vampires never die” Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan use technology advancement to explain the creation of vampires, also using mixed vocabulary and expressions to explain a more serious tone. On the other hand, James Parker uses the development of the modern zombie to explain the stereotype of these creatures in his article “Our Zombies, Ourselves,” while using more playful expressions to show his tone. These three authors seem to have the same concepts while writing about these monsters, but still disagreeing on some points. While there are some key differences in these two articles, they are similar in many ways also. All three authors agree and disagree on several points, such as they both appeal to more intellectual audiences, and they both write about conformity with the want to fit in, while disagreeing on what they use to explain their monster’s general idea.

AHHHHhhhhhh........! Imagine being awakened by a soft, distance scream. Wide awake, the world returns to being silent except for a racing heartbeat. Suddenly, a soft resonating moan starts to fill the empty air of the bedroom. Looking out the window, the world is an eerie grey with nothing moving but the occasional garbage blowing in the wind. Suddenly the horizon begins to change as a crowd of people begin to emerge. Watching nervously, the figures get closer and turn into something much more menacing. They are all disease-invested, flesh-rotted, brain-hungry zombies! Where did these undead monsters come from? How do they survive? What

Haitian clergy believe that creating zombies or zombification is sorcery, while doctors believe it is a result of poisoning. Vodoo sorcerers use a powdery substance called “Coupe Poudre”, discovered by anthropologist Wade Davis when he traveled to Haiti. This substance Davis discovered, contained a mixture of toxins from a various cane toad, an irritant collected from a Hyla tree frog species and some contained small amounts of the deadly neurotoxin tetrodoxin produced by many organisms but most commonly found in the puffer fish. Tetrodoxin if ingested causes death by paralysis but if given in a smaller less lethal dose, the victims mimic a “dead like” state, reduce heart rate and metabolic activity put the subject in a completely paralyzed state, yet fully conscious. Davis concluded that the irritant first causes small wounds on the skins surface allowing the tetrodoxin to become released into the bloodstream. Once the victim presents with these symptoms they are usually pronounced dead and buried alive. A few days later the sorcerer would return to the grave and exhume the body. The sorcerer then administers another cocktail of Atrophine and Scopolamine, a toxic hallucinogenic that causes delirium and disorientation. Vudon sorcerers would then enslave the victims and it is said that the zombification process was punishment for those who violated laws in a place during that time (Thomas). These may not be the zombies we all know and

Mythical creatures are the backbone of many things in human life. This idea is shown in the texts "Here Come the Zombies,"Kathiann M. Kowalski "Ghosts Across Europe,"Joan Rockwell " Fact or Fiction? The Creatures of Scotland, " Christine Graf. The texts overall talk about how monsters are still around today in stories and traditions. Mythical creatures help humans make sense of the world by creating cultural ideas, helping them deal with fear and anxiety, and creating new types of heritage.

A world where patient zero has caused a zombie apocaplypse you are one of the remaining survivors who fight to survive in the chaotic world you rome. You will have to find food, water, weapons, and shelter to stay alive and keep fighting through massive hoards of zombies which will try to kill you with no mercy. You must choose a path of good or evil to make friends or to betray. There are no rules and you are the judge of your decisions. The path you choose will paint your legacy as a hero or a villain. In this world you cannot trust anyone only survive to see another

I was a late bloomer when it came to knowledge of zombies. Well, late in the sense that I hadn’t noticed zombies in pop culture, not late in the sense that zombies had taken over. At least I hope the movies didn’t have real zombies acting like zombies, or else the world as we know it would be in a whole lot of trouble.

As a public discourse, popular narrative engages with social issues expressing a collective critique encouraging or discouraging social conformity. As Drezner states, “pop culture can have an “informing effect” of calling attention to and framing a particular problem. Popular culture can also have an “enabling effect” of providing shorthand references that trigger awareness of a problem” (Drezner 831). Beneath the horror and thematic thrill of the zombie film franchise, the zombie as a figure in popular culture has an enabling effect in providing awareness to society on a mass level. On the figure of the zombie, Kirk states that, “in my own case this creature talks a lot about consciousness, which it apparently regards as a deep

While the idea of zombies or where they were first originated from can be debated by many different countries, several of these myths have reoccurring plots of how humans passed away, and found a way to come back from the dead. No matter what story is being told from around the world about zombies, they all seem to originate from a dark power being used to bring someone back from the dead. Throughout the centuries; however, we have adapted towards our new technology and now many zombie stories include either a deadly virus that escaped from a lab or a biological disease that somehow evolved and helped reanimate people; yet, didn’t completely bring them to life as the functioning citizens they used to be. Although the story of how zombies came to be has changed due to technological advances, in both cases zombies seem to represent a punishment and a plague to the human species and are condemned as evil beings, or ungodly. With increasing popularity in American society, it is evident that the main explanation its popularity are because it depicts survival or an individual or group of individuals, shows a new society that isn’t overly sanitized or censored, gives people with regular lives an opportunity to live vicariously through the characters and furthermore shows that consumerism isn’t a necessity.

Are we zombies? Are our loved ones zombies, or are they philosophical zombie? No, they’re not zombies, it’s just their own consciousness. A philosophical zombie is a person without consciousness. My loved one is my mother. My mother is not a philosophical zombie, it is just her consciousness. The book, Living Issues In Philosophy, talks about human nature, the self, and the mind. In the text it says “They are exactly like us in all physical respects but without conscious experiences.” Nevertheless we are the same on the outside, we’re different on the inside. There is no such thing as “human nature, the self, and the mind to “Philosophical Zombies.”

When picturing a zombie the image of a undead person looking for its next human meal comes to mind. While this is the foundation of what the contemporary belief of a zombie is, the actual origin has a far deeper and darker history than what is portrayed today. In the 17th century, Haiti; at the time known as Saint-Domingue, was colonized by France. Slaves were brought in from Africa to work on the sugar plantations. These slaves were subject to such brutal and horrible conditions that many of them died after a few years of service at a rate two to three times higher than any other type of plantation (Berlin 21). A belief rose among the slaves that if they died, they would return to la guinée (Africa) and be free - but there was a catch. If they committed suicide; as many did, they would not be allowed to return to la guinée and instead would spend eternity at the plantation as an undead slave (Mariani).

In the modern world, media outlets and pop culture constantly revive the idea of zombies taking over human society. From The Walking Dead to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” zombies are portrayed as slow-moving living-dead creatures shown in mass amounts to create the idea of consumption. While this monster as it is depicted in movies and television shows is nonexistent, there are living zombies walking the surface every day. They hide in the shadows of town and often only wear the clothes on their back. They spend every day trying to survive with the little amount of money they can scavenge. Money to them acts as the cure to help them get the necessary resources they need. Many people in this nation and across the world are categorized as living under the poverty line. The spectrum of people ranges from homeless and sleeping on the streets to large families settling in garage-sized apartments. Even when taking out of consideration the similarities in physical appearance, zombies are an accurate representation of the major issue of poverty in today’s society due to the instant eeriness that the stereotypes of both subjects represent and the idea that the poor are unable to receive the necessary health treatments.

Step one of the preparation is the easiest: assessing the potential of, and being on the lookout for, a sudden and massive wave of zombification. I know what you must be thinking, “Zombies? No way,” but I beg for your attention on this matter; it could be the difference between life and death and un-death. Ruling out the more extreme, and significantly less likely, possibilities of sorcery and hell reaching its maximum seating capacity, leaves genetic mutation, viral infection, and science gone wrong as candidates. For simplicity’s sake, we can boil these three causes down to a disruption of brain chemistry in one way or another. As far as the possibility of an outbreak goes, in regard to the fundamental corruption of a brain’s chemical equilibrium, the risk is exponential. One piece of Mad Cow grade beef, a corn crop dusted with a carcinogenic pesticide or maybe just a simple radioactive leak into a local water supply and all of a