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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 5 Oct 2015

    Random mutations in our neurons confirm that chance, not just nature and nurture, plays a huge role in what we are.http://hms.harvard.edu/news/natural-history-neurons#.VhNLB366ht4.twitter …

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      2. David Deutsch‏ @DavidDeutschOxf 6 Oct 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker It doesn't. Creativity can trump nature, nurture and chance because of the ubiquitous role of error correction in 'what we are'.

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      3. (((LS Mitchell)))‏ @LSMitchell 6 Oct 2015
        Replying to @DavidDeutschOxf

        @DavidDeutschOxf but creativity is constrained by the first two. And @sapinker doesn't reply to tweets. But maybe for you . . .

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      4. David Deutsch‏ @DavidDeutschOxf Aug 9
        Replying to @LSMitchell @sapinker

        It can't possibly be. See the argument in Chapter 3 of The Beginning of Infinity.

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      1. Boustrophedon‏ @yodat_nioj 6 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @clairlemon Don’t forget gut flora and microbiomes

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      1. Tommy Porter‏ @tommywporter 5 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker Fascinating! But aren't nature and nurture to a significant extent determined by chance too?

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      1. John Haas‏ @haas1235 5 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @JoyceCarolOates And how do you know they're random?

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      1. Peter Lockhart‏ @ThPeterLockhart 5 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker You mean it wasn't a 2000 year old Zombie Superhero on a stick?

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      2. Læti 🌈‏ @LaetitiaFerrum 6 Oct 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @diegozabro

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      3. Jorge Angulo‏ @jorgeangulo1 6 Oct 2015
        Replying to @LaetitiaFerrum

        @LaetitiaFerrum @sapinker @diegozabro hay mas seguidores de pinker en paraguay!?

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      4. Læti 🌈‏ @LaetitiaFerrum 6 Oct 2015
        Replying to @jorgeangulo1

        @jorgeangulo1 @sapinker @diegozabro Yo le tagueé a Diego por el RT de @dduart3

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      1. Harald‏ @equalitus Aug 12
        Replying to @sapinker

        How do you know that the mutations are random? Have you observed many so that there are credible intervals for arriving at a conclusion of 50% probability of some event or many events? Seems like tautological description of absence of prediction value. Nature&nurture randomized?

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      1. Harald‏ @equalitus Aug 12
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        Would "chance" be caused by anything other than nature&nurture? Chance is a probability and/or likelihood and/or statistical tendency/trend caused by undefined causality factors but from nature and nurture. Uncertainty is chance with observed estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance 

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      1. Joaquín Manuel Cruz‏ @JoaquinSpain 10 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @cedricboeckxpic.twitter.com/4q3qiJA9dH

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      1. Kyle Sea‏ @kylenol4u 6 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker the more we know, the less we know.

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      2. Rosita Eigentlich‏ @BenjWalt 6 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @mister__lemon Sorry, but AFAIK neurons don't reproduce in any way, how can they mutate?

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      3. Rosita Eigentlich‏ @BenjWalt 6 Oct 2015
        Replying to @BenjWalt

        @sapinker @mister__lemon This article sheds a lot more light on the investigationhttp://neurosciencenews.com/single-neuron-genetic-mutations-2813/ …

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      1. polyman71‏ @polyman71 6 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker source of creativity?

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      1. Black Cat‏ @a_strong16 6 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker are they really random mutations? This notion needs clarification.

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      1. Ramkumar Shukla  🗺️‏ @RamShukla_ 6 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker seems you have changed your stand over epigenetics now

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      1. Luke M Timothy  🇪🇺‏ @LukeTimothy 6 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker epigenetics?

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