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From: Bangalore, India
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posted April 25, 2006 06:57 PM         

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"Zombie agents control your eyes, hands, feet, and posture, and rapidly transduce sensory input into stereotypical motor output," writes Koch. "They might even trigger aggressive or sexual behavior when getting a whiff of the right stuff.

"All, however, bypass consciousness," Koch adds. "This is the zombie in you."

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posted April 26, 2006 10:50 PM         

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posted April 27, 2006 12:30 AM         

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Seems like a bit of a misnomer to call them "Zombie functions." I think I prefer to call them "incredibly convenient effort-saver reactions that free up the brain to use for what we want to use it for." But that's just me.

But really - if we didn't have these handy little subroutines wired in, think what a slog life would be!

"Activate muscle sequence to initiate arm movement. Breathe. Extend radial flexing muscles in left upper appendage. Heartbeat. Heartbeat."

It'd be terrible, and we'd never get anything done. Once again I marvel at the perfection that is nature.

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posted April 27, 2006 12:33 AM         

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Is that why people's breath smells in the morning?
Zombie funk?

I liked your description, Johnny.... made me chuckle. * influx of air, contract throat muscles, vibrate voice box tightly, emit air at .01 second intervals, breathe, heartbeat heartbeat repeat

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posted April 27, 2006 06:11 PM         

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Your post caused me to emit several short, vowel-like sounds in an amused manner, Pix.

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