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 eerie musical piece during the tense scene in the film where Ben finds the rifle in the closet inside the farmhouse as the radio reports of mayhem play in the background can be heard in longer and more complete form during the opening credits and the beginning of The Devil's Messenger ( 1961 ) starring Lon Chaney Jr. Another piece, accompanying Barbra's flight from the cemetery zombie, was taken from the score for The Hideous Sun Demon ( 1959 ).

She is also attacked by the ancient vampire Vittorio, who attempts and fails to make her his Human Servant. Anita's ardeur powers reach a head in Flirt when she uses it in self defense against a were-lion ( Nicky ) that had kidnapped her to perform a zombie raising for his client, only for Nicky to have all of his free will taken away and to become Anita's " slave ".

When the body of Luthor Harkon was unwittingly taken on board the long-boat of Norse raiders and taken to Lustria, he created an undead realm known as the Vampire coast of zombie pirates from shipwrecks that became feared pirates and attacked the Lizardmen of the city of Huatl.

Nigel Thomas argues that the zombie concept is self-contradictory in that, since zombies ex hypothesi behave just like regular humans, they will claim to be conscious, which, whether this claim is taken to be true, false, or neither true nor false, inevitably entails either a contradiction or a manifest absurdity.

A botnet is a network of " zombie " computers that have been taken over by a " bot " that performs large-scale malicious acts for the creator of the botnet.

The victim is thus taken over by the headcrab and mutated into a mindless zombie-like being known as a headcrab zombie, referred to as a " necrotic " by the Combine Overwatch.

It was explained that Narcisse had broken one of the traditional behavioural codes and was made into a ‘ zombie ’ as a punishment ; when questioned, Narcisse told investigators that the sorcerer involved had ‘ taken his soul ’.

As Eriko progresses through each level, she can successfully rescue her friends and meets Jorg in the fifth stage of the game ( Jorg doesn't appear on the character selection screen because he is not one of Eriko's friends but in the killerman stage he is taken away on a cart by a zombie showing the player that he needs to be rescued ).

After a firefight with some zombie ex-stockboys, the girls are taken prisoner, but are saved by a government retrieval team.

In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.

The aforementioned zombie Bub makes a praiseworthy effort to say " Hello Aunt Alicia ," but the result is largely incomprehensible.

* In the Return of the Living Dead series, a zombie can speak normally ( even if its lungs, trachea, and facial muscles are largely missing ) but any conversation will tend to lean towards their attraction to the listener's brain, how good it must taste and the speaker's overwhelming desire to consume it.

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.

The term zombie process derives from the common definition of zombie — an undead person.

The trains would abduct a person boarding at night, and the person would then either be turned into a zombie worker, or beaten and thrown from the train a distance away from the original location.

A new version of the zombie, distinct from that described in Haitian religion, has also emerged in popular culture in recent decades.

* Kore wa Zombie Desu ka ?, a series of Japanese light novels by Shinichi Kimura ( which has also been adapted into manga and anime formats ), features as its protagonist a zombie who was raised from the dead and befriended by a powerful necromancer.

Rhodes, who kills Logan ; locks Sarah and McDermott inside the zombie corral ; murders Dr. Fisher, a fellow scientist ; and attempts to force John, their helicopter pilot, to fly them away from the complex, which John refuses.

The song " Battlefield ", from the This Is My Battlefield 2004 Panzer AG album samples Captain Rhodes asking Sarah in reference to Miguel's zombie bite: " You think he wants to walk around after he's dead?

It is argued that under physicalism, one must either believe that anyone including oneself might be a zombie, or that no one can be a zombie-following from the assertion that one's own conviction about being ( or not being ) a zombie is a product of the physical world and is therefore no different from anyone else's.

This approach results in a somewhat more effective handling of spam traffic originating from Botnets because it allows the software to slow traffic from individual spam zombies, rather than requiring zombie traffic to be aggregated into a class.

* Roadkill Zoo — A comic book about zombie roadkill that come back from the dead.

The axe wielder, returning from the hardware store where the axe's new head was fitted, is confronted by the zombie of the man slain earlier who cries out in terror that he wields the axe that killed him.

The gas leaks out of control, which poisons Frank and Freddy and releases " Tarman " from his imprisonment within the tank but the zombie is not actually seen until later on in the movie.

It was revealed that the zombie pirates were animatrons constructed by Mysterio, as were the rest of the Sinister Six aside from Mysterio and Chameleon.