How do you know if a Twitter account is run by a humanities graduate? They talk about the wonders of 'epigenetics'.
-
Yeah, you're right.
I imbued the author with a greater level of control than is necessary from her position here.
One doesn't need the voodoo of epigenetics to recognize the possibility of something like genre manipulation. But this is a secondary and largely unrelated point. @nihilaxis
-
-
dismissing the concept and whole bodies of work on epigenetics as voodoo is a weak imo. can’t be explained away that easy. you leave yourself open to argumentative exploit with that
-
I could have said 'epigenetics'. I have already stated that it's a step too far to call it bunk. Epigenetic effect seems to be minor and not really a nail to hang your revoltionary hat on. And like many other such concepts that the humanists grab onto, it's going to disappoint.
-
i guess the empirical research on this determine if that’s true, or not. I just know that in a lot of anthropology circles gene-determinism is ridiculed in the same vein as Victorian science concepts
-
Don't think it's a ridiculed in the actual sciences that study the brain. But it would be remarkably bad for anthropology to become self-aware. It is not surprising at all for a humanities field to be opposed to the actual findings of sciences (I say this as a philosophy grad).
-
this smacks of scientism
-
I'm ok with that.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
A) shouldn't diss the possession cults B) this is exactly what disappoints me so much. Under any other circumstances y'all would be appropriately excited at 'cybernetics in some missing strata, cultural/biological immanence with signal spikes in a sequence of critical periods'...
-
Like it's a fucking emitter spectrum! And how is a system of wide (genetic) and narrow (epigenetic) circuits, triadic time (information/expression/phenotype), etc not unusually 'cut the research there is some slack'-worthy
-
Don't give a shit about the rest, "colonialization covers HBD evidence via epigenetics" is just a plausible hypothesis that there won't be a worthwhile answer about for a decade and Isn't The Point. /rant, sry
-
Is there a text under discussion here? ...
-
... But in the absence of more, have to go with
@realMaxCastle (probably predictably). The Lamarckian wish-fulfillment is just too blatant. Every generation of communists goes through the same routine. -
Where is the Lamarckian wish-fulfillment occurring? At the level of doing the (40y of) research, or concluding (as an observer) that the phenomena are most likely important? Or appropriating/dismissing/etc them for political brand-building and memetic arms-race purposes?
-
Whatever the text under discussion here, there's no link in my TL, so I'm forced to base response on the varieties of epigenetics bullshit I've been exposed to previously. ...
- 7 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.