Task Two: Know Your Zombies

In Bradley Voytek’s pamphlet entitled ”The Science of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse” he states that zombies have brain damage causing defects that we can take advantage of.  The author starts by claiming that zombies have cerebellum damage causing severe ataxia, which causes them to be slow and uncoordinated, so we can easily outrun them. The author next proceeds to show that loss to the hippocampus in zombies causes them to have amnesia, we can take advantage of this by hiding and being quiet, hopefully they will forget where you went. He next proceeds to state that since their parietal cortices are damaged they don’t feel pain, so you should try fighting them unless you damage their brainstem. Next the author claims that loss of their posterior parietal cortices they are easily distracted, take advantage of this by distracting them by objects. The author finally argues that exhibit a form of Capgras delusion, so if you mimic them it can buy you some time to escape.