Nature v. nurture is interesting, but it doesn't by itself explain the full range of human behaviour, or diffs between people.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
Actually, genes and environment do exactly that.
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
In the trivial sense that environment = everything that is not genes, genes + environment explain everything.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
Well of course they don't explain everything. I agree. They do, however, explain human behaviour.
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
Do genes explain in a satisfactory sense why we built a massive ring structure in Geneva?
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
In part, Yes. By itself? No.Genes influence our abilities & in part choices. Environment plays a role as well. I'll be the last to deny this
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
Does Pythagorus' theorem come from genes or from 'environment'?
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Replying to @christianjbdev @TamaraBrouwer1
Id say from combination of evolved human abilities & environments that enable such use of them but...
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...this is unsatisfactory to Christian who sees reason & ideas & truths as more than a sum of those parts.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
I'm trying to understand what else he thinks this involves.
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May the force be with you. I've been trying to understand this for about two years now.
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