Thursday, February 9, 2012

Zombie Science

Defect: Slow moving zombies 
Cause: Damage to the cerebellum, zombies exhibit sever ataxia and thus will be slow and uncoordinated. 

Out-run them!

Defect: Amnesia
Cause: Lose of the hippocampus has caused the zombie to have very short memory spans. Take advantage of this by hiding. 

Keep quiet, wait it out!

Defect: Immunity to pain
Cause: Due to damage to the parietal cortices, zombies can't feel pain; if you can't kill them by damaging the brainstem, don't try to fight them. They won't feel a thing. 

Don't fight them! 

Defect: Easily distracted
Cause: Lose of the posterior parietal cortices has lead to a difficulty for zombies to coordinate hand-eye movements, an inability to visually fixate, and an inability to perceive more than one object at a time. Take advantage of their distractibility! 

Distract them! 

Defect: Misconceptions
Cause: Zombies appear to exhibit a form of Capgras delusion. If the zombie's ataxia isn't enough to allow you to outrun it, you may wish to act like a zombie until you can escape. Mimicking in-group zombie behaviors may buy you critical moments!

Mimick them!

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