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CMV: Zombies (mostly) make no sense

I don't want to hear about how horror is unbelievable anyway so who cares. There is always a logic to go by, even when it involves supernatural.

Unless Zombies are moved by magical forces, I claim that they make no sense. And in many zombie stories there was some attempt to scientifically explain them. I am not asking for any deeper explanation that would work in our reality, but I am asking for consistency.


They are creatures who have their nervous system, even if damaged, and all their organs atrophied. So how on earth are these creatures whose hearts don't beat, whose livers and lungs don't work, able to see, smell and move?

If your muscles are dead - and they are with no blood to nourish them - you will not be able to move regardless your nervous system.

How can you'r eyes work if they aren't watered?

How can you smell if you can't inhale the air because your lungs are dead?

Discuss.
gpt
There are typically two types og zombies, depending on which fiction you are looking into. There are magical zombies, which are just reanimated dead. There is no attempt to make sense of it because, well, it's magic. The other type is the more grounded in reality type that are usually caused by some rabies-like pathogen. Generally these zombies are not fully dead, but have lost higher order thought process and still have mostly functioning bodies (at least for a period anyway). Some stories play a little fast and loose with biology, but there's very little hard science fiction out there anyway. The answer in these kinds of situations is that it works by some mechanism we are unfamiliar with and know little about and it's not relevant to the plot so explaining in detail how the science works serves no purpose.