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Argument AGAINST scientific reductionism (love reduced to hormones and pheromones) CHELSEA MADDY

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Argument AGAINST scientific reductionism (love reduced to hormones and pheromones) CHELSEA MADDY

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An article on: The Power of Love
- the importance of love and real genuine human connection is something so complex that humans can only understand on a surface level
- human relationships are something that binds our society and humanity together
- connections shared between people go much deeper than the physically, they help fill mental voids and give and provide happiness and belonging to many
- with the lack of love and humans (Crakers) ability to have real emotion there would be an entire absence of the intangible
- relating back to science vs humanities in the novel - how science (the tangible) is taking over and humanities is being less valued and funded)

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Argument FOR scientific reductionism (love reduced to hormones and pheromones) CHELSEA MADDY

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Argument FOR scientific reductionism (love reduced to hormones and pheromones) CHELSEA MADDY

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“No more prostitution, no sexual abuse of children, no haggling over the price, no pimps, no sex slaves. No more rape” pg. 165
- human trafficking and problems that occur around sex and human intimacy would be reduced if sex is changed to something humans are only programmed to do for the purpose of reproduction
- conflict wouldn't be as apparent when it comes to emotion (Crakers lack emotion and strong PERSONAL beliefs)
- less unhealthy relationships, mental and physically abusive relationships wouldn't occur because the peoples lack of ability to actually create these base connections

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The connection between Jimmy's world and our world.

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The connection between Jimmy's world and our world.

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The advanced science achieved in the world of the novel has challenged the distinction between humans and animals. Pigoons, for example, are pigs that grow human organs and even human brain tissue (for transplantation). Their partially human makeup makes it so that people are uncomfortable with the idea of eating them because it seems vaguely cannibalistic. Similarly, many people have recently refused to eat meat due to animal cloning and genetic modifications.

Some of the characters in the book are similar. For instance, the Crakers are genetically modified individual products that could be sold separately to parents who were willing to pay for more genetically perfect children. How China has created a modified genetic child that they meant to redact all possible diseases. However, eventually, humanity will be able to create a genetically modified child that is edited as the parents want.

How the Crakers are lack of socializing others can be compared crackers to our lives and the lives of animals. The crakers are genetically modified for lack of socializing. They have a limited sense of human relationships and genuine connections by reducing love to just hormones.

1. Recently, a growing number of people are afraid to communicate with others. Incidents caused by this lack of communication are also increasing rapidly. Small misunderstandings caused by communication failures can result in significant problems.

2.  We can compare crackers to our lives and the lives of animals. Whether it's for puppies, puppies are neutralized less than a few weeks after birth.

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Photo - connection between your visual/s to your group’s category (human relationships) MADDY CHELSEA

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Photo - connection between your visual/s to your group’s category (human relationships) MADDY CHELSEA

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Photo 1: human relationships and genuine connections are being overruled by technology and the use of social networking. The creation off social media was through to bring humanity closer together and "unite" us, but instead it has resulted in an opposite effect. Face to face connections are rare now a days, FaceTime is closest thing we get most of the time to real interactions. relationships (friends/family/spouses) are effected negatively by social media and the over use of technology and devices. It has created a disconnect, as illustrated in the photo, the couple is physically close, but they are both using a phone, taking away from the possible connection.

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this photo directly relates to the inner workings of the 'Crakers'. They look like perfect humans on the outside but they are actually programmed by Crake to lack emotion and meaning. They don't understand meaning behind words, and the soul purpose of mating (sex) to reproduce. The absence of meaning behind anything (words, emotion, physical/metal connection) creates a robot like human. They resemble an ideal perfect human (based on Crakes aesthetic) that doesn't possess single imperfection not he outside. They have perfect porcelain skin, green eyes, and not a single inch of fat around their waists, but the inner workings of Crakers are far from what human is. being human is having imperfections and flaws, which in the story is something that Jimmy craves because of the lack of imperfection surrounding him.

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How is Scientific reductionism related to Human relationships? Crake reduces love to hormones and for “practical purposes” MADDY

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How is Scientific reductionism related to Human relationships? Crake reduces love to hormones and for “practical purposes” MADDY

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“Crake has equipped these women with ultra-strong vulvas – extra skin layers, extra muscles – so they can sustain these marathons” pg. 165

“Sex is no longer a mysterious rite, viewed with ambivalence or downright loathing, conducted in the dark and inspired suicides and murders. Now it’s more like an athletic demonstration, a free- spirited romp.” pg. 165

*Crake reduces love to hormones and pheromones

-        Jimmy trying to “hang onto the words” as he is all about humanity, art, and the intangible makes a comment to crake “What about art?”

-        Crake has taken “love”, pleasure, and connection out of sex and relationships and reduced it to something scientific – making humans and sex for the purpose of mating (but we can’t reduce love to hormones and pheromones)

-        humans (Craker’s) are fancy monkeys in the novel they are like a science experiment

-        Crake doesn’t see the value in love and real genuine human connection, feeling, and emotion

-        He has taken out all the intangible of what was once so complex (love) and reduces it to nothing more than just a science for reproduction with complete absence of meaning

-        Oryx and money value is another example (value in body parts)

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Summary conclusion- through her ‘Fact in Fiction' (satirization) + two secondary resources/quotes MADDY CHELSEA

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Summary conclusion- through her ‘Fact in Fiction' (satirization) + two secondary resources/quotes MADDY CHELSEA

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Human relationships (love) is directly related and described as the connect/disconnect in society today

Many things are a result, causing, and encouraging this disconnect

Over consumption and materialism is a result of the lack of connection - caused by social media and a hole in ourselves where we desire and crave acceptance (buying the next best thing)

Fact in fiction: scientific reductionism *(how crake has went lengths to completely remove all sense of humman relationships and genuine connections by reducing love to just hormones and pheremones (sex is just for reproduction)

Has taken love (something so complex in the world of intangibles) and made it tangible and programmed in us

Two secondary resources/quotes:

Scientific Reductionism-16333nf - secondary source explaining scientific reductionism - its relation to fact and fiction "One form of scientific reductionism follows the belief that every single process in nature can be broken down into its constituent parts and can be described scientifically."  - complex idea (love) and the process of sex and human connection broken down into hormones and pheromones (for the soul purpose of reproduction)

Materialism-raco66 - secondary source on materialism and how “things and stuff” is our way of coping with this disconnect and lack of emotion in society - caused by the loss and absence of the intangible we then rely on temporary happiness gained from the tangible (material items)

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Compare and Contrast - Parallels (connections -in our world) CHELSEA MADDY

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Compare and Contrast - Parallels (connections -in our world) CHELSEA MADDY

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1)     Physical: social media – trained from birth to be consumers, big corps in our world like the story, will use social media platforms to market and sell their products – they will use popular “social media influencers” to help sell their products because these people are seen in society as highly ideal physically (based on appearance) – since in society consumers today look up to these ideals displayed online we will do whatever it takes to try to look that certain way - this relates to the book as crake creates these idealistic beings called ‘Craker’s’ based off of his aesthetic

2)     Mental: how words have lost meaning: in the novel a huge thing was that crakers do not understand the meaning behind words, a word is a word to them but their brains are not programmed to give them any context or relate these words to anything tangible (basically the loss of the connection between tangible (real life things and meaning) and intangible (words and language) – this is the main reason why crakers are unable to create meaningful connections and relationships – this relates to our world today when it comes to the fact that language is losing its meaning, for example the word “like” is used more often as a filler world for people instead of actually using in correct context as a way to compare two things are “alike” or to explain something you enjoy

3)     Taken away the intangible: the lack of emotion, feeling in connection in the story, as crake creates his Crakers with the absence of the ability to make REAL and genuine human connections relates to our world today and how social media has distanced humanity (opposite of what social media was meant to do) Crake created his Crakers without this ability to connect to solve others problems such as rape, prostitution, sexual abuse and sex slaves. But instead of doing good negatives came out of this as the Crakers were, as a result, completely dehumanized. Social media is the same where initially it was seen and thought to bring a community and the world closer but instead it has obviously distanced people and created many negatives related to real human connection today. It has just made people are less and less able to communicate in real life relationships with the excessive amount of time spent on social media

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Compare and Contrast - Parallels (connections -in book) MADDY

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Compare and Contrast - Parallels (connections -in book) MADDY

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(1) Physical side of the Craker’s (how Crake has fully dehumanized them PHYSICALLY)

(2) Mental side of the Craker’s (how Crake has fully dehumanized them MENTALLY)

(3) Took away the intangible (love, sex, emotion, and human connection)

1)      “It was the thumbprints of human imperfection that used to move him, the flaws in the design: the lopsided smile, the wart next to the naval, the mole, the bruise” pg. 100– talking about the sense of humanity snowman/jimmy is lacking within and what he is craving (not a perfect craker woman) craves imperfection and humanity (Craker’s) – represent dehumanization of the tangible (the lack of meaning behind the words, flawless physical appearance, all very similar, perfect smile, teeth, skin, no imperfections, bulges, lopsided, no fat around their waists, no dimples, green eyes – created all to fit crake’s aesthetic.

2)     “Hang on to the words” pg. 68– Snowman (word person, intangible, humanities) hang onto what he has left of human connection and meaning of life, connecting to the Craker’s and how they don’t associate meaning to words, snowman wants to hang onto the last few things that depreciate him from the Craker’s and hang onto things and understanding that he possesses – what makes him still humane

3)      “No more prostitution, no sexual abuse of children, no haggling over the price, no pimps, no sex slaves. No more rape” pg. 165 - Crakes mindset behind creating the Craker’s (absence of emotion/connection behind sexual acts in his mind will then result in an absence of crime to do with sexual acts)

“Crake has equipped these women with ultra-strong vulvas – extra skin layers, extra muscles – so they can sustain these marathons” pg. 165

“Sex is no longer a mysterious rite, viewed with ambivalence or downright loathing, conducted in the dark and inspired suicides and murders. Now it’s more like an athletic demonstration, a free- spirited romp.” pg. 165 -Taken away the intangible and the emotion behind sex therefore women are now seen as reproduction machines lacking feeling and connection (sex for reproduction – absence of pleasure) only mate for production (Crake believes humans are hormone robots -this is why he makes the Craker’s distant from any sort of heart connections)