Philosophical zombie

World War Z Introduction: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks is the story of a virus that preys on the living, turning them into parallels of zombies, the only difference is that they do not eat human flesh. The storyteller, a reality discoverer for the Postwar Commission, has arranged various meetings through the span of several years, and has recorded them in the form of a book for future Commission Members to investigate. Character: Jurgen Warmbrunn & Paul…

First rule is to never give up faith and hope. There will always be a reason to stop fighting and just to give up to the enemy. In Malibu, California, Roy Elliot talks about ADS. That is Asymptomatic Demise Syndrome, or, Apocalyptic Despair Syndrome, depending what you are talking about. No matter what it was called Roy stated that, “It killed as many people in those early stalemate months as hunger, disease, interhuman violence, or the living dead” (World War Z 159). The had a camp in the…

David Nye’s American Technological Sublime explores the concept of the technological sublime in America throughout history. As the book progresses, it shows how people in the United States have been able to discover and create awe-inspiring scenes. In the earliest days of the United States the sublime was found primarily in nature, however as time has gone by people have begun to create their own sublime through the advancement of technology. As Nye explains, the earliest forms of the…

Sublime artwork was created in the 19th century. The European landscape paining Sublime became an important theme during the romanticism period. Sublime art played a huge part in the enlightenment and has influenced artists and writers for centuries. The European tradition of sublime artwork gives a vibe of the vastness of nature. Sublime artwork uses vibrant color, different tones and realistic factors to create an image that is unique to the eye. Sublime art is realistic because you can…

assumption that his idea of a philosophical zombie. In order to understand Chalmers’ arguments against materialism, we first must ask ourselves, what is a philosophical…

Physicalism is the philosophical idea that mental states are just physical states meaning that only what is physical is real so totally disregarding mental ideals. In the case of the claim that ‘someone could know all the physical facts about seeing red and yet learn something new when they see red for the first time’ shows that physicalism is false as it assumes that one just learned a new fact when instead developed a new type of consciousness. This is the very case of the thought experiment…

3) While Cartesian dualism says that there are two different mental and physical entities that make up the mind, functionalism argues that the brain is an independent entity. Functionalism says that the brain – a singular entity – contains two kinds of properties, mental and physical. Thus, it is a form of dualism in the sense that there are two different things in play, yet only one physical entity which these properties reside in. It solves the causal relation problem that Cartesian dualism…

A philosophical zombie is functionally identical organism to a human being, yet they lack a conscious experience or qualia. The knowledge argument: Mary is a brilliant scientist who has extensive knowledge about physical theory and is a ‘perfect reasoner’. When Mary leaves the black and white room, and sees the ripe red tomato; she acquires new knowledge of experience. Mary experiences what it is like to see red. Despite knowing everything about color perception, Mary is not able to deduce the…

Zombie fascination after World War II The recent fascination with the apocalypse and zombie scenarios can be traced back to the advent of nuclear warfare during World War II, as argued by Stanford literary scholar Angela Becerra Vidergar. After the destructive events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the horrific violence of the Holocaust and World War II, human collective visions of the future were drastically altered and the disturbing realisation of human capacity for mass violence was brought…

corresponds with Propp’s thirty-one functions of folklore, and to demonstrate the findings in correlation to the similarities found in zombie mythology and European oral fairy tale traditions. I exemplify some key functions that exist within nearly all folklore, according to Propp, and how, because of this correlation, The Walking Dead and nearly all narratives of zombie culture, form part of a larger ongoing social myth, indifferent of the elements of myth found in the European traditional…