Corporeal reanimation is the theoretical concept of reanimating a dead organism, restoring its living functions and enabling it to move and to freely interact with the world of the living as it did when it was alive.

Reanimation also refers to alleged supernatural phenomena in which the souls of deceased persons reinhabit their dead bodies and return to this world, usually to complete unfinished business. Look up Supernatural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In fiction

Many people, mainly fiction writers, have proposed how it would work, but their theories are only portrayed in movies or fantastic tales of "Zombies" or living-dead, and such. Despite this, it seems possible, mainly due to the precept that the neural functions and nodes inside most dead organisms remain functional even when the organism is dead. These can be controlled and stimulated with electric impulses, stemming from the brain or another source. The central idea focuses on the dead organism's brain being crudely revived to re-enable simple functions and allow passive ability of normal bodily operation, such as eyesight, hearing and acting on instinct, though how the brain is 'revived' is never explained. It is roughly reflected with movie plots, such as the introduction of a virus into a body, which slowly kills the host and reanimates it. This can be seen most notably in the George A. Romero's Living Dead films and in the Resident Evil series of video games. For other uses see Zombie (disambiguation) A zombie is a kind of undead, or figuratively, a very apathetic person. ... George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American director, writer, editor and actor. ... The Living Dead is the blanket term for the three separate series that originated with the seminal 1968 zombie movie Night of the Living Dead created by George A. Romero and John A. Russo. ... Resident Evil, known in Japan as Biohazard ), is a highly successful survival-horror franchise that started life as video games developed by Capcom and created by Shinji Mikami. ...

In culture

An example of reanimation appears in the Caribbean tradition of voodoo: the zombie. True to modern portrayals, zombies have no mind or will of their own and are basically living-dead — although their bodies are metabolically active. World map depicting Caribbean: West Indies redirects here. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A participant in a Zombie Walk event in Calgary This article is about the living dead. ... Undead is the collective name for all types of supernatural entities that are deceased yet behave as if alive. ...

In science

The scientist and inventor James Lovelock pioneered reanimation research in the mid-1950s. In an interview with the BBC's Mark Lawson (BBC Four, May 22, 2006), he referred to an early experiment in which a common hamster was trained to find its way through a maze, then "frozen", and later brought back to life. "It was as good as new!" Lovelock said, "it could make its way through [the] maze, as it was trained to do before..."^[1] James Lovelock in front of a statue of Gaia in 2000 Dr James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS, (born July 26, 1919) is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. ... BBC Four Ident BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began on March 2, 2002 – its first evenings programmes being simulcast on BBC Two. ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Notes and references

1. ^ Reanimation of rats. Retrieved on 2006-05-22. Details of similar experiments on rats.

1. Reviving a dog experiment in 1940 Russia
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See also

• Resident Evil
• Re-Animator
• List of zombie films