Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Task Two: Know Your Zombies

     In Dr. Bradley Voytex's informative article entitled The Science of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, he states that the zombies have many different defects or disorders in their brain that one can take advantage of while in the situation of the zombie apocalypse. One of these defects is called severe ataxia which means so slow-moving zombie and uncoordinated. One could take advantage of this defect simply by running away from the zombies since they are slow. Another defect they have is amnesia this is caused by the loss of hippocampus. One can take advantage of this defect by hiding from the zombies, sooner or later they will forget who or what they're following and simply  go on being zombies. A third defect that the zombies have is the damage to the Parietal cortices; however, this defect one cannot really take advantage of, instead one must be aware not to fight zombies since the damage to this part of the brain causes immunity to pain, in other words if you fight the zombie it won't feel anything. Another defect that the zombies have that one can take advantage of it the loss of posterior parietal cortices. This causes the zombies to have difficulty with hand eye coordination, inability to visually fixate, and the inability to perceive more than one object at a time. Finally official defect that one could take advantage of is the fact that zombies apparently exhibit a form of Capgras delusion. This basically means if you can out run the zombie, you can try to mimick the zombie it won't be able to distinguish you from another zombie if you're acting the same. Voytex's purpose is to inform the reader that during the zombie apocalypse in not all about the weapons have but the knowledge you have of the zombies in order to survive the zombie apocalypse.

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