Surgery is an Option to Gain Wanted Physical Appearance

In the society, every human wants to be attractive in his/her physical appearance, and due to the desires, a surgery becomes one cosmetic method to change people’s faces to marvelous standards. Humanity defines humans’ identity and, through human-like-appearances, human’s brains, and behaviors. Nevertheless, humans do not show biological distinctions from other species. Instead, people figure out their uniqueness from philosophical ideas. Susan Blackmore’s “Strange Creatures” introduces ideas of memes and imitations which define uniqueness of humans. Due to the spread of memes, humans can evolve themselves and form a society based on their ability of learning and knowledge. Memes, learned by people’s imitations which they observe or experiences circumstances to be imitations of learning, helps to distinguish humans from other species which transferred between and among people. Throughout passed down memes, people share knowledge to communicate across and to modify their society. On the other hand, “Dr. Daedalus” by Lauren Slater describes humans’ favors of altering people’s natural aspects through cosmetic surgery of faces and bodies, relates to humanity. A self represents several aspects on humans but it affects memes on each human that affects memes’ existence rather than it affects humans’ identity directly. A plastic surgery operation impedes memes to spread and to propagate among human society by changing self in humans.

Throughout changing our faces, humans automatically change their identities through losing their memes. Humans’ brains control bodies and thinking. Brains can control everything that people perform as humans. Slater explains about a connection between brains and bodies and says, “…that human beings also have...

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... Changing self by marvel surgery affects humans’ identities by blocks memes in the society. A plastic surgery operation makes the changes of brain which affects the limb map. This limb map represents the self. Specifically, the self represents the limb map’s little man, the filter of the memes, and souls. Moreover, changing souls affects changing of filter of the memes. The chain reactions, limb map-filter and soul-memes, affect humans’ identities because it directly affects humans’ owned memes. Changing of memes affects the society because memes help people to communicate with others to improve the current situations and environments. Humans still desire to be more beautiful and attractive within the society’s standards of beauty. Even though people find out method to change their natural faces and bodies, a plastic surgery will make people to be less human-like.