According to Oxford advance leaner dictionary, zombie in second meaning means "(in some African and Caribbean religions and in horror stories) a dead body that has been made alive again by magic." There are many stories about zombies which appear in our world without magic.
In "Who's in charge inside your head," David P. Barash reports that there are bees behaved as zombie, called "zombee", but they are not real zombies. The bees fly out at night and then die because of flies, Apocephalus borealis. This fly lives and lays eggs inside bees until the larva fries are mature, and they consume bees from inside out. This is the reason why died bees can fly out at night.
This title is reminded about movies named The Mummy. In the movies, there is a large swarm of black bugs eaten meat. When a bad guy invade into a pyramid, he face to them. The bugs try to enter into the man body and then consume and lay eggs inside him. As a result, he disappear. These bugs in the movies are similar with zombees, but they are the human imagine.
About two years ago, a Thai man went to see a doctor because he itched and had some pimples on his skin, especially hands and legs. When the pimples were scratched, there were some flies fought out and disappeared. He admit at the hospital about a weeks with unknown causes how it happened. It is unfortunate for flies that human has the largest army to defend against invaders. Eggs of fly which lay inside human can not grow because of our killer T cell. If the pimples did not open, the flies would die inside or hibernate forever.
However, the original of zombie may be the legend of Vampire. In the past, many vampire movies, people will become a vampire because they sell their souls to Satan. But, many vampire movies today, people will become a vampire because of virus infection. Continuously, human imagine is creative until a vampire develop to stronger monster, a zombie.
If any flies can defeat our immune, human will be preys as AIDS.
Reference
David P. Barash (October 6,2012). Who's in charge inside your head. The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2012 from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/whos-in-charge-inside-your-head.html?ref=science&_r=0
Monday 8 October 2012
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I thoroughly enjoyed this short essay when I read it in The New York Times a few days ago. From the eye-catching title to the concluding sentence, Barash held my attention as he first told us some fascinating stories about animal brains taken over by other animals, and then gave the evolutionary biology explanation, with a few comments on how we are equally controlled by things that are not us, that in fact the "us" is only an illusion created to create more of us by our perfectly mindless genes.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I'd already heard of the fluke that takes control of the ant's brain. Such thrilling stories are popular with philosophers exploring such topics as the mind, free will, persons, the foundations of ethics and such things. Usually, philosophers make up their examples, for example the idea of a brain floating in vat linked up with computers, which gave film producers the idea for The Matrix films, but sometimes reality provides some good examples to clarify a point, even a point in a theory about reality.
I through that it might be useful to take someone under controlled by you. We can control them to do unwanted or unhappy works instead us such as washing our clothes, cleaning house. However, if I were a person who was under controlled by others, I will feel upset and angry myself because I cannot control my body to fight with them.
ReplyDeleteIn many zombie movies, the people usually infect zombie virus by blood and spent many hours before the infected persons turn to unconscious zombie person and then the zombie will start hurting other people because of hungriness. I do not know the zombie group do not eat them self or other zombie, It might be that the creator want their movies more exiting.
Bus, hypnotize people who you want to controll. It is better than making them become zombie because if they are zombies, it means they have only bodies, but no souls.
ReplyDeleteThai people, especially teenagers and young adults, use the word "zombie" to express their feeling of exhaustion or weakness. For example, last night I sleep just only an hour, so when I got up and saw my face in the mirror, I asked myself "why do you look like a zombie?".
ReplyDeleteI remember the inferius from Harry Potter series. Even after death, I can't stand being controlled by other people. I really feel sorry for poor "zombees".
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