Chu doesn’t see the difference between twin studies to determine the genetic and environmental influences on traits, and Nazis stitching twins together for shits and giggles. For him even your genes are just an ‘environment’.
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
I'm on record as saying I think if I had different genes I'd still exist and be me, at least to the same degree that I'd still exist and be me under the counterfactual where I was born in a different city or a different year
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Was it sensible to go ‘on the record’ with that? In what sense would something with different genes and different environmental experiences be you? If this was possible why is there only one of you?
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Replying to @Shatterface @arthur_affect and
Hahahaha he keeps getting better and better. Now a genetically different 'Arthur', subject to (necessarily) different environmental interplay with genes, is still the same person? Wow!
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Replying to @unwitod @arthur_affect and
This really is the end point of postmodernism. If you aren’t your genes, variation and the environment you are a free floating entity. If you can be anything then everything can be you. It’s Pan-Chuism.
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
Essentialism is the whole thing we are trying to oppose, yes There is no fixed definition of what makes you "you" - either it's all of it or it's none of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
You’ve ‘gone on the record’ to say you could be you even if you had another body. You are claiming there is a ‘you’ that us entirely independent of your biological substrate. How is this not essentialism?
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
It's social constructionism My identity exists as a result of how I interact with and am perceived by others It's the only reason I'd still be "me" if I got conked on the head and woke up with amnesia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
This is completely the opposite argument you made earlier. You said you could still be you in another body; now you are arguing that you would still be you if you lost your memory but retained the same body. Nobody has denied that.
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
I'm saying both are equally valid or invalid There is no essential self
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It's really funny that I say I don't believe in ANY essence and you interpret that as me believing in a mystical soul Your essential self isn't a mystical floating artifact you can detach from your body and move around through the spirit world, I agree It doesn't exist
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