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animals that it would be almost impossible to imagine what a “mindless”
person would be like. The romantics may picture a “zombie,” but nobody
knows what a zombie really is, since it is a non-existent creature. The med-
ically minded can compare it to a person suffering from sleepwalking, but
no one can engage in sleepwalking for more than a few minutes; and I do
not believe how such a person could spend a lifetime undertaking such