Blog 20 - Quote Integration

One cannot live without survival skills. The way humans survive is through learning. Humans use their memories, “a process of information retention in which our experiences are archived and then recovered when we recall them,” in order to decide how to approach new unknown challenges. The dolls in Dollhouse can never learn because their memories are always erased. Their inability to learn, unless they have been programmed to do so, hinders their ability to survive. So when Echo must escape from Richard’s deadly arrows in order to prove that she is worth the life she has been given, she has to use her memories and past experiences. Echo was able to escape from Richard using the information from the memories she had been imprinted with If Echo had been in the state in which she had been wiped clean of her memories,  she would not have been able to run away from Richard died in the forrest. Echo has no memories of her own, so she has no survival skills. But what happens when her memory is wiped clean? Will she be able to survive then? Would any doll be able to survive without imprinted memories and skills for survival? 


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