What environmental influence will turn a man into a woman or vis-versa?
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
Do you believe Arthur Chu when he says he could have been born into another body and yet have still been him?
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What I meant by that is I would have a "different body" if ANYTHING changed in my childhood I would have a different body if I got in a car accident at the age of four, or a chemical burn at 15, or a drug overdose at 32 Being conceived with different genes is the same thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
There is no "essential self" written into DNA Your genes are accruing mutations constantly anyway, that's part of what aging is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
I’m not accruing someone else’s genes. That’s as moronic as saying I’m accruing your age.
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
Your genes don't have name tags on them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
I don’t need to tag them as they aren’t likely to wander off and get lost.
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
So the question of your genes changing into "someone else's" genes is completely meaningless, it's just more essentialism Your genes *change*, that's the only important thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
You can develop cancers if that’s what you mean. Your telomeres will also shorten. You won’t change sex. I won’t wake up tomorrow and find I have no longer inherited mitochondria from my mother, and I’ll still be able to trace my paternal lineage through my Y chromosome.
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
They'll be able to *guess* with a varying degree of accuracy what they can trace your ancestry back to based on how many mutations those genes have accrued over time, yes You keep stating things as absolutes that obviously aren't absolutes
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If de novo mutations couldn't happen and persist, in the long run there could be no evolution
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
No de novo mutation will change your sex, and it will only contribute to evolution if it is passed on down the germ line, ie via sex between two members of the opposite sex.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
And there would be no X Men.
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