Also real life is making me think about how The Last of Us, while novel for using the fungus explanation, is implausible even among zombie stories as an actual apocalypse event, unless I'm missing something
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It's also worth noting that most experts think the fanciful idea of a Cordyceps fungus for humans is totally impossible, because of your favorite law, the square cube law
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The reason a fungus can completely reprogram the brain of an insect is there isn't much brain to reprogram An insect's "brain" is tiny and simple and as soon as the fungus starts growing in it it can rewire the necessary connections
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Human scientists can do something similar, it's not very hard to make a kit to "remote control" a cockroach by sticking electrodes in it With a human sized brain this is much more difficult, not just because we're more complicated but the brain is physically too big
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It would take a long time for the fungus to spread through a whole human brain from wherever it randomly starts growing, and during that time the brain would be malfunctioning in unpredictable and random ways as the fungus fights the immune system
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It wouldn't really be able to "reprogram" you in some consistent and predictable way, not before you just got sick and died
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