Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-05-22]: An ad with zombies was used by CDC in the United States to launch a campaign on how citizens should be prepared for cyclones [source: web news]. The zombies are known from horror films, but few people know that a very known philosophical argument for the existence of the soul (see Zombie arguments for dualism) is based on them: If entities such as the zombies may exist even in our imagination, what does that really mean for us? The zombie moves and acts as a normal person. So what's the big difference between a zombie and...you, my dear reader? What distinguishes you from a soulless and inanimate being, if not something more than the blood and bones which constitute your body (which will be eaten by the the zombies anyway)?(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
