Chalmers ' argument is that it seems plausible that such a being could exist because all that is needed is that all and only the things that the physical sciences describe and observe about a human being must be true of the zombie.

The zombie argument is a version of general modal arguments against physicalism such as that of Saul Kripke against that kind of physicalism known as type-identity theory.

" The outline structure of Chalmers ' version of the zombie argument is as follows ;

The zombie argument claims that one can tell by the power of reason that such a " zombie scenario " is metaphysically possible.

Daniel Dennett and others argue that while consciousness and subjective experience exist in some sense, they are not as the zombie argument proponent claims.

The zombie argument is difficult to assess because it brings to light fundamental disagreements about the method and scope of philosophy itself and the nature and abilities of conceptual analysis.

Proponents of the zombie argument may think that conceptual analysis is a central part of ( if not the only part of ) philosophy and that it certainly can do a great deal of philosophical work.

For this reason, discussion of the zombie argument remains vigorous in philosophy.

Jackson argues that the intuition-driven arguments against physicalism ( such as the knowledge argument and the zombie argument ) are ultimately misleading.

After a heated argument, Prisoner KSC2-303 kills one of the Yakuza members who immediately comes back to life as a zombie.

For example, Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter argue that anything capable of passing the Turing test is necessarily conscious, while David Chalmers argues that a philosophical zombie could pass the test, yet fail to be conscious.

As a third issue, philosophers who dispute the validity of the Turing test may feel that it is possible, at least in principle, for verbal report to be dissociated from consciousness entirely: a philosophical zombie may give detailed verbal reports of awareness in the absence of any genuine awareness.

A very common payload for worms is to install a backdoor in the infected computer to allow the creation of a " zombie " computer under control of the worm author.

( This sort of animal is called a " zombie " in thought experiments in the philosophy of mind ).

* The intelligent zombie Vikke of Lollipop Chainsaw is loosely based on the Draugr.

* World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War ( 2006 ) by Max Brooks is a series of interviews from various survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

It concludes with blank pages which the owner is meant to use as a journal, should they endure a zombie outbreak, lending the book a stronger, if satiric, kind of realism.

In the Marvel Zombies continuity, Shang-Chi is turned into a zombie during a multi-hero effort to rescue surviving civilians.

A different Shang-Chi appears in Marvel Zombies Return in an alternate universe where he is unaffected by the zombie outbreak.

It has been claimed under reductive physicalism, that when a distinction is made in ones mind between a hypothetical zombie and oneself ( assumed not to be a zombie ), and noting that the concept of oneself under reductive physicalism may ever only correspond to physical reality, the concept of the hypothetical zombie can only be a subset of the concept of oneself and will in this nature also entail a deficit in observables ( cognitive systems ) thereby contradicting the original definition of a zombie.

Zombie fiction is now a sizeable sub-genre of horror, usually describing a breakdown of civilization occurring when most of the population become flesh-eating zombies – a zombie apocalypse.

The goal is to push your luck stacking up zombie kills before your buddies.

Running out of the house, she is caught between the house and strange menacing figures that are akin to the zombie in the graveyard.

The next morning, Ben is killed by a member of the posse, who mistakes him for a zombie, and placed onto a burning pyre along with other dead bodies.

While the word " zombie " itself is never used-the word used in the film is ghoul-Romero's film introduced the theme of zombies as reanimated, flesh-eating cannibals.

One of the Survivors In the first Left 4 dead game is a Vietnam Veteran who often compares living in a zombie apocalypse to Vietnam.

On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table.

The parent can read the child's exit status by executing the system call, whereupon the zombie is removed.

After the zombie is removed, its process identifier ( PID ) and entry in the process table can then be reused.

A zombie process is not the same as an orphan process.

If the parent program is no longer running, zombie processes typically indicate a bug in the operating system.

* The Wraith Project Fan website focused on the continuation of the Wraith game, as well as other ghost and zombie based games.

; Atlas of the Walking Dead: Includes upgraded zombie creation rules, based upon various legendary undead from around the world, including the Shuten-Doji (" Japanese Vampire "), Gyonshee (" Chinese Hopping Vampire ") and Aztec Mummy.

* Z. A. P. P. A., A website based on how to survive the zombie apocalypse

The film is very loosely based on the non-fiction book of the same name by ethnobotanist Wade Davis, wherein Davis recounted his experiences in Haiti investigating the story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was allegedly poisoned and buried alive ; and who, when released from the grave, purportedly received an herbal brew whose effects produced what was called a zombie.

A first-person shooter licensed video game based on the George A. Romero zombie horror movie Land of the Dead.

They have released two albums: This Is a Spark of Life, on Indecision Records, and a split with Leeds, U. K .- based, and fellow zombie enthusiasts, Send More Paramedics, called Tales Told by Dead Men, released in North America on Hell Bent Records and in Europe on In at the Deep End Records.

Tests were conducted on collected specimens, and it was found that they had been infected by the parasitic fly apocephalus borealis ( also known as the zombie fly ).

It includes citations of scientific studies performed on zombies, details on the sort of preparation one can make to guard against attacks, and historical examples of zombie outbreaks.

The British film 28 Days Later ( 2002 ) featured an update on the genre with The Return of the Living Dead ( 1985 ) style of aggressive zombie.

In the house, a report on the television reveals that, aside from setting the reanimated dead on fire, a gunshot or heavy blow to the head will stop any zombie and that posses of armed men are patrolling the countryside to restore order.

Though their works could not be properly considered zombie fiction, the supernatural tales of Bierce and Poe would prove influential on later writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, by Lovecraft's own admission.

Also, unlike normal processes, the command has no effect on a zombie process.

They do not become zombie processes ; instead, they are adopted by ( process ID 1 ), which s on its children.

This film, capitalizing on the same voodoo zombie themes as Seabrook's book of three years prior, is often regarded as the first legitimate zombie film, and introduced the word " zombie " to the wider world.

Though referred to as " the first modern vampire novel ", it is as a novel of social theme that I Am Legend made a lasting impression on the cinematic zombie genre, by way of director George A. Romero, who acknowledged its influence and that of its 1964 adaptation, The Last Man on Earth, upon his seminal film Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

During a zombie wrangling mission, two soldiers are killed after a zombie escapes its harnesses ; whereupon Miguel attempts to kill the creature, but is bitten on the arm, which Sarah amputates to stop the spreading infection.

Sarah boards the helicopter, only to be attacked by a zombie inside ; but wakes to find that the final zombie attack was a dream and that they are now living on a tropical island.

The co-pilot is killed by the zombie ball turret-gunner leaving only the pilot – who barely escapes in time, only to land on an island where he finds wreckage of airplanes, along with the wrecked airplanes ' zombified airmen.

They include Joe following the making of Little Britain series 2, which was screened on BBC Three and is included on the Little Britain Series 2 DVD ; a video diary of his brief cameo as a zombie, which appears on the UK Shaun of the Dead DVD ; and ' Hot Fuzz ': The Fuzzball Rally, where he followed his friends and collaborators, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg on the US press tour for their film, Hot Fuzz.