Yikes, Zombies!

I can't believe this is my third post on Zombies! It's really starting to get creepy when the CDC issues a Zombie Warning!

Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse


The following was originally posted on CDC Public Health Matters Blog on May 16th, 2011 by Ali S. Khan.

There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this.
Read the CDC Zombie Warning

To see a video on What To Do in A Zombie Attack and How To Survive a Zombie Holocaust CLICK HERE

Papers on zombies

• Selmer Bringsjord (1995), "In defense of impenetrable zombies"
• A commentary on Moody 1995 (one can't really distinguish zombies and humans).
  
• Selmer Bringsjord (1996), "The zombie attack on the computational conception of mind"
• Using the possibility of zombies to draw out inconsistencies in Dennett's argument against Searle.
  
• David Chalmers (1993), "Self-ascription without qualia: A case-study"
• A commentary on a paper by Goldman, with a case-study of "Zombie Dave".
  
• David Chalmers (1995), "Absent qualia, fading qualia, dancing qualia"
• Thought-experiments about functional isomorphs, arguing that in the actual world such isomorphs will be conscious.
  
• David Chalmers (1996), "The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory"
• My book on consciousness, with all the zombie discussions you could ever ask for. Unfortunately most of the zombie stuff isn't available on the web.
  
• Allin Cottrell (1996), " Sniffing the camembert: On the conceivability of zombies
• A thoughtful paper arguing that zombies as I describe them in my book may not really be conceivable.
  
• Daniel Dennett (1995), "The unimagined preposterousness of zombies"
• Zombies aren't really imaginable
  
• Daniel Dennett (1999), "The zombic hunch: Extinction of an intuition?"
• On why we shouldn't trust our intuitions about zombies
  
• Owen Flanagan & Tom Polger (1995), "Zombies and the function of consciousness"
• Using zombies to question whether consciousness has a function.

Papers information found at http://consc.net/zombies.html

Watch a couple of creepy old zombie movies http://littlewebtreasures.blogspot.com/2010/04/zombies.html
You can also watch "Night of The Living Dead" right here!