Analyzing Susan Blackmore's 'Strange Creatures'

Title As far as we know humans are considered the most intelligent species on our planet. However, the ability of study and imitation makes us different from others. In human’s life, copying and seeking abilities from the surrounding exist in every period. For example, airplanes, electricity, radar and so on that make our lives achieve a huge progress are imitations of some characters of animals and nature. In “Strange Creatures” Susan Blackmore expounds the importance of imitation. Meanwhile, the implication of “meme ” is also mentioned in this essay. “Meme” which is defined “As ‘something’ that can then be passed on again and again and so take on a life of its own.”(Blackmore, 34) is regarded as the key things that makes human different
He introduces the reader to some of his eccentricities and patients. He wants to use plastic surgery to go beyond what is normal by giving people wings and other physical features that we do not have, and asks “Why do we only value the average?”.Throughout the article, Slater tags along with Rosen on his trip to the ER, an important meeting and to his house to discuss his ambitious and creative mind along with what it means to be a human. He goes in depth with her findings and gives her own opinions to let us know how he really feels about plastic surgery, the meaning of being human and her own imperfections. He sees nothing wrong with these imagined surgeries as long as the person is willing and not harmed. Slater allows us to see inside her head much of the time. He was confused and intrigued by his ideas. He is unsure of what exactly she believes and ponders about the ethics and morality of it all. However in my opinion, what makes us humans is our faiths. No matter how the appearances change, beliefs, ethics and even souls. Physically altering ourselves and memes are treat as branches but our souls are trunks and roots. Branches are what make the tree beautiful but trunks and roots keep the
As in other cases, different species will disown their young if they have an imperfection and leave them out to care for themselves at a vulnerable age. For humans, children with Down syndrome or other cruel diseases are cared for just as much, possibly more than regular humans. My high school class was roughly four hundred kids, and about thirty of them were kids with some sort of disease or other imperfection. They were looked after by the faculty and the students alike. We understand the imperfections people can have and adapt to those problems and make it easier for them to have a full life. As humans, we have a deeper understanding and higher intelligence that maybe, in certain occasions these "special" people may be "extraordinary". Even though if those select few do not become "extraordinary", we understand that they have the same rights to life as the rest of us, we just need to help them along a little more. Cures and treatments are continually being attempted to help what seems to be incurable diseases; creating these cures and medicines is something that only humans have the ability to do. There are though, other imperfections we can change about ourselves and that is exactly what makes us human. The final example is at the beginning of Slater's article. The man named Sweeny was attacked by cancer and his face was corroded until he would have been viewed in society as a "monster".