If you have two identical twins, do you praise one for his twin's right answers on a maths test? Even if they share the same genes?
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Replying to @christianjbdev
How does that relate? Who is saying maths answers are in genes? Just the ability to learn maths is
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
If they were both maths geniuses, I'd think their brains more interesting than the maths answer.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
I don't know what u're saying. What is mysterious. We don't understand how ppl work stuff out? We might do 1 day. Probably be disappointing
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well, maybe I'm going off on a tangent, but the 'I' is also mysterious. In that it's not just the sum of the genes.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Is that not brain too? The perception of a self? Which is gradually dismantled if dementia sets in?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yes it's the brain. But not just the biological equipment from our genes, but the thoughts it holds, which don't come from the genes.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
No, we've been here. Same as computer can hold information which is different to computer components.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
And don't jump on me for comparing brains with computers. It's just an analogy. I know brains are much more incredible & 'mysterious.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Au contraire, according to many (most?) scientists, the brain is *exactly* a computer, not fundamentally diff. to any other.
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OK but you are not 'scientist' right now. Ur Platonist with a tendency to take any suspected devaluing of human reason badly!
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