Summary Of Strange Creatures
It has always been a common idea that we human, have full control of our own thoughts through our brain. While recently there are some opposite opinions say that as a matter of fact, we cannot fully take charge of our ideas. This new idea lets many people get confused and wonder whether we humans have the ability to actually control our mind. We can’t fully control our own mind due to our instinct of imitation and being easily controlled by the social trend. In Blackmore’s essay “ Strange Creatures”, she introduces the word” meme” which explains the mechanism of human learning. Human are used to their special ability of imitation during their daily life which let them become the perfect host for memes. As time goes by, human copy others ideas
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Mario is still the person who makes the decision by himself. Because he was desperate from OCD and he wants to be cured. He wants to be a normal and become a father. So, he is the person who makes the choice to let the doctors implant the electrode into his head instead of others. “ He wanted a shot at the ordinary, a lawn he might now just once a week. The ability to endure the mess and touch of children. He decided the implants were well worth the risk.” ( Slater 238) Mario has the strong desire to become a father and he is tired of the long and useless method that he has been tried before. Now, implant has become his last choice, he wants to take the risk and if he is lucky, he would become normal. So, he makes the decision that he wants to do the implant surgery. It is the same for the meme. Even though we have the ability of imitation, we don’t always have the exactly the same idea. As a matter of fact, when we copy something, we only copy the gist instead of the whole thing. We are still human that we cannot remember others reaction exactly the same, otherwise, we would all be the same. Blackmore agrees the same idea, she claims “ My aim in this book is to show that many aspects of human nature are explained far better by a theory of memetics than by any rival theory yet available. The theory starts only with one simple mechanism--the competition between memes to get into human brain and be passed n again.” (Blackmore 39) Since people imitate things differently, there would be competition between memes. They all want to be the one that could be passed
Mario is still the person who makes the decision by himself. Because he was desperate from OCD and he wants to be cured. He wants to be a normal and become a father. So, he is the person who makes the choice to let the doctors implant the electrode into his head instead of others. “ He wanted a shot at the ordinary, a lawn he might now just once a week. The ability to endure the mess and touch of children. He decided the implants were well worth the risk.” ( Slater 238) Mario has the strong desire to become a father and he is tired of the long and useless method that he has been tried before. Now, implant has become his last choice, he wants to take the risk and if he is lucky, he would become normal. So, he makes the decision that he wants to do the implant surgery. It is the same for the meme. Even though we have the ability of imitation, we don’t always have the exactly the same idea. As a matter of fact, when we copy something, we only copy the gist instead of the whole thing. We are still human that we cannot remember others reaction exactly the same, otherwise, we would all be the same. Blackmore agrees the same idea, she claims “ My aim in this book is to show that many aspects of human nature are explained far better by a theory of memetics than by any rival theory yet available. The theory starts only with one simple mechanism--the competition between memes to get into human brain and be passed n again.” (Blackmore 39) Since people imitate things differently, there would be competition between memes. They all want to be the one that could be passed