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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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
It is absolutely true that I inherited mitochondria from my mother. It is absolutely true that you will never change sex.
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
You know even the thing about mitochondria is not "absolutely" true, right There's no enforced law that makes it that way, it's just that the ratio in size between an ovum and the head of a sperm makes it much more likely the mitochondria in the new human come from the mother
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
This is literally all biology: It's a big ass collection of sorta-repeatable chemical and physical coincidences that we call life. And we live inside that giant sausage. Assigning importance to it is silly. Your childhood house isn't _you_, even if it did shape your past.
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And your faith is in what, an internal essence that can only be diagnosed through self-report? An adherence to culturally specific stereotypes? What toys you played with as a kid? A fondness for unicorns?
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I wouldn't call it "faith" myself but a *commitment* to the liberal norm of self-identification, yes, that no one else has the right to tell you who you are
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