Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-03-03]: Fungi attack ants, contaminate their brains, turn them into zombies, "force" them to climb up a tree, kill them, then they grow a pod of spores from the head of the ant and then spread new seeds over long distances by taking advantage of the height at which the "zombi"-ant has ascended! Unbelievable, but these things are common in forests in Brazil [source: web news]. Can creatures as "zombies" exist, even at a hypothesis level? What is Consciousness? Is an engine which works a "Being" or a "zombie?" I am "who I am" or I am just a machine, a zombie? Which "fungi" now controls my brain to make me write these lines? Or does the only fungi that exists is the mushroom I am about to eat later?
Articles for further reading
One can read in the ""Human Consciousness and the end of Materialism" article more for the "Zombie argument for Dualism".
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