In Invasion from the Body Snatchers, you can't really tell the
'infected' 'zombies' from the 'normal' people (not, that is, until the
'zombies' are in a majority and 'out' themselves).
(Nor, really, can you tell Stepford Wives from normal people until
there is a similar 'outing'.)
Point: there are some films one could use (though fewer than there are
zombie films in general) with philosophy of mind on zombies as you
describe it.
>
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:35:36 -0800
> From: Aaron Smuts <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: zombie literature
>
> Looking for quotes from Derrida on a topic is a nearly
> surefire way to preclude any original discussion. If
> you are interested in problems with drawing the alive
> / not alive distinction, then you'd be better off
> looking at viruses than zombies.
>
> Yes, there is also a great deal of literature in the
> philosophy of mind on zombies and what their
> possibility means for physicalism. You can get into
> the literature by looking at some encyclopedia
> articles, such as this one:=20
> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
>
> However, thinking about zombie movies in reference to
> the philosophy of mind literature would be
> unrewarding. For starters, the zombies are a
> different kind. The zombies in the mind literature
> must be physically and functionally indistinguishable
> from real people, and well, horror zombies are pretty
> easy to identify. They don't behave like us, and the
> seldom look very healthy.
>
> Although horror zombies often look different than
> non-zombies, their similarities raise significant
> philosophical problems.
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