I know hair color and texture can change when people get treated for cancer. Speaking of which, cancer is 100% natural! Natural is not Good
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Of course you can use the word without a value judgement. "The patient 'would' have been born with two arms, but a developmental disorder in utero caused a malformation and they only have one" That you can't use words properly says something about you, not me.
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Counterfactuals are, in fact, one of the most annoying things that don't actually make coherent internal sense that people invoke
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It helps me to see DNA as "source code" with a huge number of lines commented out. It matters which lines are commented out, and once we figure out how to read the comments, we can alter them directly without touching the sequence. Expression is not a single reading of source.
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That's better but it's still extremely reductive for what we're talking about here. If DNA is the "source code" for much of the core engine then RNA, proteins, and even organelles, cells, and organs are like higher-level scripting languages where a lot of the real work happens.
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