DAY 3 – Zombie invasions, edible aliens and alcoholic bread

It’s day 3 of the live chats and there’s no let up in the quality and quantity of questions! Interesting topics covered include blind people’s dreams, zombie invasions and whether aliens could be edible!

Did you know…

Some people think zombies really exist:

grovez : could there ever be a zombie invasion ?

benbrilot : unlikely, but actually zombies exist according to some philosophers. A zombie is technically someone who behaves exactly like any other person, but who has no self-awareness, they have no idea that they exist or why they’re doing what they’re doing

We can’t trust our memories:

sessess : So talking about memory, is it true that every time you remember something you’re actually only remembering the last time that you remembered it? (if that makes any sense…)
michaelcraig : Great question again. Over time are memories can change, for example if you remember something you did a year ago, each time you remember it you may add little bits and pieces to the memory, or lose little bits of it, so in a way yes you’re right the last time we remember something is the memory which we have for an event that happend in the past

Edible alien by Ash for Wikimedia

Aliens could be edible:

louisehtdd : if we found aliens, would they be edible?
amytyndall : I doubt it! They would have evolved differently. But we won’t know until we find them! Rocks are edible, they just aren’t very good for you. So aliens are probably edible, just like anything else!