No, if you think about it probability wise (you can describe anything in the universe by probability) If you consider time being infinite then there is a probability that we will become zombies. This probability might be extremely small, but there still exists a chance. So I said there is a definite chance. I left out that it is extremely small, but I was in a mood to play with words . But ya everything is possible (Everything!!) just some things might be less likely than others.
I agree Flip, but I don't think chance is the right word were using here. I think of probability as if you flip a coin, what chance do you have it is heads? Hmm, I suppose it is the correct term to use here.
Yes probably. There is a definite chance there there will be a disease someday that makes people into ZOMBIES!!
I Am Legend.
Anyways, I have always thought that one day there would be a disease that might turn us vicious. I don't think you could really call the sick people zombies. I think it would sort of follow I Am Legend and people would just go crazy and kill others.
Nonsense. For a disease to do that, it would have to alter your brain. Any attempts of the virus to do such a thing would kill you. The brain cannot be altered with.
Nonsense. For a disease to do that, it would have to alter your brain. Any attempts of the virus to do such a thing would kill you. The brain cannot be altered with.
So what do you call common dementias such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's? What about the personality changes of Phineas Gage after he had a stake driven through his frontal lobe? The psychotropic changes to neuronal plasticity following the stimulation from taking drugs, or drinking coffee?
The brain is always being altered with, but it's more precisely a matter of how much and in what way. I think the thrust of your point was that it is hard to envisage an agent that specifically hijacks your functioning in such a way. For my part I'd say it would involve a heck of a lot of synchronicity not really apparent to viruses...the closest and most sophisticated equivalent I can think of when it comes to microbiota is bacterial "quorum-sensing" and that ain't got nothing on what would be required to produce a zombie.
Anyways, I have always thought that one day there would be a disease that might turn us vicious.
I think you're also alluding to 28 days later and 28 weeks later
Certain viruses can be directly attributed to behavioral changes, yes. Some of the background rationale to the above films can be paralleled to the Ebola viruses.
There is a chemical Tetrodoxin. It damages the brain, cuts off oxygen and clogs up poors to make somebody in a zombie like state. Heres the link [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombies]
there may be a diesease but more than likley its not gonna be a parastie that takes control of ur brain after it destroys it...more than likley 9also) itll just KILL U!
