Strange Creatures By Susan Blackmore: Unique Imitation

Humans struggle their entire lives to find affection that satisfies them. We assign this affection to objects that we obtain throughout our lives. An engagement ring, for example, is a large meaning attached to a small object. While it still has quite a high expense, women care more about the man who it’s from than the store, well, hopefully. In Akiko Busch’s story The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, she explores the objects her two sons, and people in general, become attached to over time. There’s a certain box she brings up and says “Sometimes the little box had value, sometimes it had none, and its worth seemed to come and go, by pure chance” (1). She discusses why certain things are worth more than others and why certain things have more

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Consciousness can be linked to multiple things, such as how we do things, why we do things and anything that is related to being aware or awake. When a person is conscious of their behaviour, actions and abilities, they are then capable of accomplishing anything without any difficulties. When genes are produced and replicated the human body is then aware of what to do, causing the brain to become stronger. In the book it mentions how we are aware of the idea that we are the vehicles and our genes are the replicators. Genes are seen as the most powerful but as the brain becomes more highly developed it takes over more policy decisions, using learning and simulation to overrule. Therefore showing that when a human is conscious of the power of genes they are able to take over that task. Being aware of something or getting used to it both allow an individual to be able to achieve anything and become less

They provide a background to our native history, present a real-life problem, which connects back to the history they supply, and offer a solution. They constantly refer to the theory of evolution and natural selection. Questions about how the human mind evolved have been around ever since Charles Darwin presented his of natural selection in 1859 with The Origin of Species. He hypothesized about where human thought and emotion came from, but his data concerned the bodies (not the minds) of distant human relatives. At around the same time, Gregor Mendel discovered that characteristics were passed from parents to offspring through genes. In 1953, their discoveries were combined with the James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA: genes were shown to be patterns of DNA that serve as blueprints for the organism’s physical traits. A few decades later, evolutionary biologists began to connect how genes translate not only to physical traits but also into human behavior. However, few actually use the results of evolutionary psychology to improve

humans being have complex brain thinking and they have ability to adapt according the situation . Walter Issac and David Suzuki both agree in their essay that animals also have ability to perceive and thinking but still animals are not able to adapt themselves and protect themselves. Because of having complex thinking skills, humans are able to know the consequences of their actions. according to David Suzuki, the world imagined , made as well as ruled by the humans. it shows that human are really special because they have the ability to regulate the world in which we live .

Once in a life, we have been imitating a fashion and a behavior of an idol or someone. What if imitation is always occurring in everyday life to individuals? In the essay, “Strange Creatures” wrote by Susan Blackmore, she believes that whatever the way individuals act or think is claimed to be imitation. She claimed, to be imitating is what makes us different from animals or other living species. The reason for mimic is because this is privilege of being human nature. Then she gives an example of whenever someone smiles, other smiles back, but animals cannot. What animals can do is to show positive emotions like whipping a tail or actively move around. This phenomenon is called “meme”. The meme is like a copy machine or gene in Blackmore’s

The apex of human existence is to uncover what is human existence or further what is the reason anything exists and especially what does it mean to have conscious thought; in other words, to find out what it means to be human. This can be further expand upon on as what is everyone’s individual purpose and how would those purposes change based on the social, economic, and political situations which vary between person to person and even civilization to civilization. Does being human mean one is just an animal with conscience thought or is the reason behind why consciousness something much more than pure natural selection, because according to the theory of evolution natural selection is only a need to either help keep the moto of survival of

The author explains that not all genetic modification has the same purpose. He then precises that our cerebral system indirectly affected the way we now are physically and mentally. In conclusion, Darwin states that humans still carry physical traces of their less intelligent

Philosophers and psychologists could never quite understand the meaning of consciousness. Thy thought it was time to try something different to get the meaning of consciousness. Henry

The meme is controlling humans and humans are the robot for meme. A job is to replicate any meme that is presented in our daily life. Blackmore gives an example of birthday song and jingle bell in her essay, “Strange Creatures”. Just by saying the title “Happy Birthday to You” will make the people to humming a tune. Blackmore believes “those words affect you, probably quite without any conscious intention on your part, by stirring up a memory you already possess” (6).

Consciousness is the outcome of billions of years of natural selection and randomized occurrences that gave us life and the ability to be self sustaining, self controlling and self repairing. In terms of evolution we did not start with possessing a consciousness, in fact we developed one in order to became the humans we are today. What if in fact, robotic creation is the same, they are on their own evolutionary track of improvement and progression until a conscious state is achieved. In this paper I will argue there is no true opposing argument. I will highlight that there is a possibility for the garage built robot, Hal to have become a conscious entity because a machine being conscious does not contradict any

Everything done, from the time one is born, is acquired from what is seen around

Beautiful Creatures, there are so many categories to fit this book into, such as fantasy, mystery, romance, or even horror. This book has so many unique qualities, it's the kind of book that leaves you suspended the entire book trying to expose one simple question.

Imitation can be simply defined as an act of copying or the assumption of one’s behavior observed in others. Humans are strange creatures with the ability to imitate and cope languages or ideas that make “us” different and can be distinguished from animals. These all describe memes, which support individuals to explore and experience new inventions through a way of imitating. In “ Strange Creatures,” Susan Blackmore promotes the theory that a little conscious “me” is created by the memes so as to replicate. She discusses memes as replicators that can help to control human thoughts, behaviors and believes everything can be passed from person to person. Memes allow people to fit in and imitate others to what society has offered; howerver, American education encourages unique individual learning and diverse voices rather than just imitation that can establish critical thinking.

Understanding the humans is one of the most difficult things one learn in life, form how it works to the science behind it. Susan Blackmore’s, “Strange Creatures” brings to light all the struggles we go through and some of our abilities can be misleading. She begins the passage by differentiating humans from animals. She also tells her audience about Memes which seem to be successful due to not only their purpose, but their host’s devotion. If a person became easily influenced by a meme they would have been more prone to imitating information. In the passage, Strange Creatures, she personifies these “memes” calling them selfish and states that their only drive is to be “passed around”. Blackmore goes on by saying, “Instead of thinking of our own creations, and as working for us, we have to think of them as autonomous selfish memes, working only to get themselves copied. We humans, because of our powers of imitation, have become just physical ‘hosts’ needed for the memes to get around.” (Blackmore 37) By personifying memes in this specific way she is informing the readers in an indirect technique that memes are working against our minds. Blackmore’s belief in the theory of memes support the idea that humans are oblivious to the power that memes have over them. Imitation could be as easy as seeing a pair of shoes that you love on television and purchasing a pair that is identical. Applying memes into higher education can negatively affect individuals trying to obtain a unique