“THE ULTIMATE MASTERS; THE GENES”

Wow! The gene is surely a unique and essential basis to create humanity! I´ve never thought about who or what was the thing that created each human. While reading Chapter 4, I totally learned that the real master of the human existence was, the gene. We as humans behave in singular ways and reflect exclusive personalities, but guess what? Genes are really responsible about the behavior of all survival machines, since they work as our “ computers programmers”.

All genes do, is to set the survival machines up, and then they survive on their own. Each individual’s brain is build by unique genes. “The genes have to instruct their survival machines not in specifics, but in general strategies and tricks of the living trade”(P.53). I really liked the analogy of the polar bears, where genes are aware of some general predictions; the future of this bear will be set in a very cold climate, for this reason genes have to build a thick coat of hair. Another analogy I can think of, is the prediction made by genes towards the black race; people who are black usually live in hot climate, so genes already know that their skin must resist sun all day and it must be tan. “All we have to believe is that those individuals whose genes build brains, they tend to gamble correctly are as direct result more likely to survive, and therefore to propagate those same genes”(P.56). Genes build brains in a way that the created survival machine survives, so its genes can also survive and pass to next generations. Of course, genes can´t make specific predictions, since they only act in an indirect way (Of course in a very powerful sense) , but it´s extremely important to realize that each survival machine experiences more things through life, till the point that they can even have “the power to rebel against the dictates of genes, for instance in refusing to have as many children as they are able to”(P.60)

It´s really interesting to see how we really work depending on certain aspects; such as the genes being the masters of our creation! Every machine is build by certain genes, who predict and ensure certain aspects for it to survive. But well, we are also geniuses in a way that we are the ones who control limits or reactions. Through every day life, we, as humans, learn lots of things, which at some point they become exceptional to make us be aware of how to keep high our survival.