[quote name='SpazX']An electro-chemical agent couldn't provide nourishment, so they'd have to eat something, and if that means you then maybe that would work. But they'd die just like any other person if they bled to death or their heart/brain was damaged and would just as likely kill each other than anybody/anything else if they don't have higher-level brain functions. They would also wander around and bump into things, fall over, and generally be retarded so I don't think they'd pose much of a threat provided you can move and aren't retarded.
Muscle memory isn't actually in the muscles, it requires a brain with higher-level functioning to remember how to do something. Simply because something isn't conscious (like muscle memory) doesn't mean that your body could do it without a brain. Your muscles don't have the capacity to actually store information.[/quote]
actually some muscle movements DON'T go to the brain, but stop in the spinal cord. Muscle memory doesn't require the brain. This is common in pianists who learn complicated musical peices that, if they had to THINK about they couldn't play.
I am a classical pianist, so I understand the phenom of muscle memory and the role it plays in my ability to play complicated peices. I have to practice, until my fingers know the music, and I don't have to think about it anymore. It becomes automatic.
And of course, zombies wouldn't last indefinately... They will eventually decompose and stop functioning.
(Read THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, it gives you 4 classes of zombies, from fresh to almost fully decomposed).