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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. don't be die of old potato‏ @sophienotemily 11 Mar 2020
      Replying to @sophienotemily @arthur_affect and

      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

      2 replies 2 retweets 57 likes
    2. don't be die of old potato‏ @sophienotemily 11 Mar 2020
      Replying to @sophienotemily @arthur_affect and

      But I think this obsession with DNA is 100% philosophical - the idea that there's a blueprint somewhere for what you "should" be and that deviating from it is bad

      4 replies 1 retweet 65 likes
    3. don't be die of old potato‏ @sophienotemily 11 Mar 2020
      Replying to @sophienotemily @arthur_affect and

      It's Plato's Ideal You, but with a veneer of science (that most of us aren't educated enough in to understand; I include myself in this, I only know the basics of how DNA works)

      3 replies 1 retweet 55 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Mar 2020
      Replying to @sophienotemily @vashti and

      There's a lot to be said here about how the homunculus theory of human reproduction - the medieval belief that sperm actually contained tiny little miniature humans that just needed to be planted in a womb and grow - never really any away That's still the popular idea of DNA

      4 replies 5 retweets 66 likes
    5. PaulPaulyPaul  🛡 🇪🇺‏ @GCPaulM 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and

      No, Arthur, it really isn't. Is a blueprint for an aircraft a tiny aircraft?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @GCPaulM @sophienotemily and

      DNA is not a "blueprint" for anything

      1 reply 2 retweets 14 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and

      The use of *any* metaphor like "blueprint" or "recipe" or "code" is wrong because it implies an anthropomorphic designer, someone who "wrote" the code while having a living human being in mind, which never happened But if you must use a metaphor DNA is like code with no assets

      2 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and

      It's a sequence of a bunch of switches to flip Most of the information that makes a functional human being is in the switches being flipped (the cellular machinery and organic environment of the human body)

      2 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
    9. PaulPaulyPaul  🛡 🇪🇺‏ @GCPaulM 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and

      Of course, but I was using the term in a colloquial way to draw the distinction between the homunculus idea and DNA.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @GCPaulM @sophienotemily and

      No, it's the same thing If you believe there's a little picture of a man in your DNA or a "blueprint" or a text description or whatever it's all wrong Your body is the result of a series of accidental processes that happened throughout your life, your DNA is just one of them

      2 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and

      This idea that God actually wrote DNA with a purpose in mind creeps into people's language all the time "Genetically he's normal but something 'went wrong in the womb'", etc

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and

          The key thing it has in common with the homunculus theory, the one thing that needs to be debunked and shoved out of people's minds, is this idea of an "intended human body" that was "written into your DNA" that it's possible to "deviate" from

          2 replies 4 retweets 20 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and

          This isn't even primarily of concern to trans activism but to other people dealing with biological essentialism more directly, like disability activists or intersex activists But it's used as an indirect attack on trans people ("convincing people to mutilate their perfect body")

          1 reply 2 retweets 16 likes
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