Book by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (2017) analyzing the zombie as a cultural symbol for the modern meaning crisis — the feared reduction of persons to mere biological automatons stripped of agency, consciousness, and meaning.
Interprets the zombie phenomenon as a cultural symptom of the meaning crisis: collective anxieties about agency, consciousness, and the draining of meaning from human existence by scientific materialism and its implicit zombie model of mind.
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