Imagination, science, cinema, and zombies
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This article analyzes the intrinsic relationship between human imagination, scientific development, and its representations in mass culture, focusing on the cinematographic subgenre of zombies. Based on a conceptual review, it argues that imagination acts as a necessary prelude to scientific praxis; however, when science detaches itself from moral boundaries and social dynamics, profound anthropological crises arise. Cinema, considered a mirror of the collective unconscious, has evolved its narrative regarding the living dead: mutating from origins linked to sociocultural mysticism toward a contemporary panic grounded in biotechnological and pharmaceutical laboratory errors. The zombie monster thus stands as the perfect metaphor for a humanity dehumanized by the amoral advancement of quantitative knowledge. It concludes that the philosophy of science must intervene as an inescapable ethical bridge to regulate scientific practice and safeguard human dignity against the dangers of self-destruction.
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