In today’s world, technology has become a medium of connections among people. Through the advanced technology people are able to communicate with each other. Social media and artificial intelligence are one of these technologies. People can use robots as a substitute for a human. On the other hand, social media allows people to chat with people all around the world. Gradually all people have started using technological devices as a medium of connection. This has happened because people imitate each other. Many people have tried to explain the behavior of the human’s brain. This imitation can be described by Dawkins selfish meme theory. Susan Blackmore mentions the Dawkins selfish meme theory in her article “Strange creatures”. She wants to
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“We can say that memes are ‘selfish’ that they ‘do not care’ that they ‘want’ to propagate themselves and so on” (37). According to Dawkins meme theory, memes are selfish and careless. Here, Dawkins is proposing the memes as a living creature who ‘want’ to propagate. By the word ‘want’ he meant to say, that they do not actually want, but they act like they want to get copied. It seems like they ‘want’ to be successful. The successful meme is the one which gets passed on from one person to another. Dawkins also proposes memes as selfish and careless creatures, because whether memes are useful or not they get copied from one brain to another. This behavior of memes is very scary and dangerous because their effect on a human can be negative. One of the memes which effected negatively on human brains is the meme of using technological devices. Turkle talks about how technological devices propose themselves as a substitute of a human and how the uses of the technological devices can be harmful to a person’s relationship. “As sociable robots propose themselves as substitute for people, new networked devices offer us machine mediated relationship with each other, another kind of substitution” (264). This means, even though, robot is just a programmed machine, it seems that it is proposing itself as a substitute of a human. Additionally, networked devices …show more content…
Blackmore says in her article about how memes use human body as a host. “We humans, because of our powers of imitation, have become just the physical ‘hosts’ needed for the memes to get around” (37). Meaning, because of the imitation power of humans, memes use humans as their host to live So that, they can spread around. Memes use human brain to live, because they ‘want’ to become successful by propagating from one brain to another. However, human has control if they want to share these memes with other people in society or not. Human have power to think and identify if the particular meme is good or bad for them. Blackmore gives an example how beliefs about our planet changes over the time (38). First people had the belief that world is created by God especially for them, but that idea was wrong. Galileo and Copernicus overcame with these false memes and gave us a whole new idea of a galaxy and how it works. They were able to think beyond the false belief and figured out that the Earth is just a planet in the galaxy in the vast universe. People accepted this new theory of the universe because they identified that the meme of false belief about the earth was bad for them. There is another meme, which is the meme of technology. Turkle talks about how the meme of technology is affecting human’s relationship with other humans. He says that “When people talk about the
“We can say that memes are ‘selfish’ that they ‘do not care’ that they ‘want’ to propagate themselves and so on” (37). According to Dawkins meme theory, memes are selfish and careless. Here, Dawkins is proposing the memes as a living creature who ‘want’ to propagate. By the word ‘want’ he meant to say, that they do not actually want, but they act like they want to get copied. It seems like they ‘want’ to be successful. The successful meme is the one which gets passed on from one person to another. Dawkins also proposes memes as selfish and careless creatures, because whether memes are useful or not they get copied from one brain to another. This behavior of memes is very scary and dangerous because their effect on a human can be negative. One of the memes which effected negatively on human brains is the meme of using technological devices. Turkle talks about how technological devices propose themselves as a substitute of a human and how the uses of the technological devices can be harmful to a person’s relationship. “As sociable robots propose themselves as substitute for people, new networked devices offer us machine mediated relationship with each other, another kind of substitution” (264). This means, even though, robot is just a programmed machine, it seems that it is proposing itself as a substitute of a human. Additionally, networked devices …show more content…
Blackmore says in her article about how memes use human body as a host. “We humans, because of our powers of imitation, have become just the physical ‘hosts’ needed for the memes to get around” (37). Meaning, because of the imitation power of humans, memes use humans as their host to live So that, they can spread around. Memes use human brain to live, because they ‘want’ to become successful by propagating from one brain to another. However, human has control if they want to share these memes with other people in society or not. Human have power to think and identify if the particular meme is good or bad for them. Blackmore gives an example how beliefs about our planet changes over the time (38). First people had the belief that world is created by God especially for them, but that idea was wrong. Galileo and Copernicus overcame with these false memes and gave us a whole new idea of a galaxy and how it works. They were able to think beyond the false belief and figured out that the Earth is just a planet in the galaxy in the vast universe. People accepted this new theory of the universe because they identified that the meme of false belief about the earth was bad for them. There is another meme, which is the meme of technology. Turkle talks about how the meme of technology is affecting human’s relationship with other humans. He says that “When people talk about the