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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Quoting spoiler

able to reason (whenever they don't smell prey)

So it smelling prey for zombies like being horny for humans?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

more spoiler talk for The Girl With All the Gifts

Yep! So at first humans don't think the zombies have any higher brain function, since the zombies cannot have any higher brain function when they smell a human.

Eventually humans figure out that hiding their scent can provide them some protection. Then they realize they've been killing sentient people when defending themselves against the zombies.

There's a whole plotline in between where humans think it's just a few zombies that are sentient, including the title character - "the Girl with All the Gifts".

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oof, that's pretty creepy.