Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Page #2
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influences how a cell deals with
what makes us who we are on the most individualistic
levels of personality.
And what you've got is this complete false dichotomy
built around nature as deterministic
at the very bottom of all the causality.
Life is DNA and the code of codes
and the Holy Grail, and everything is driven by it...
At the other end is a much more
social science perspective which is
We are 'social organisms'
and biology is for slime molds.
Humans are free of biology
and obviously both views are nonsense.
What you see instead is that
it is virtually impossible to understand
how biology works
outside of the context of environment.
[It's Genetic]
One of the most crazy making
yet widespread and
potentially dangerous notions is:
Oh, that behavior is "genetic"...
Now what does that mean?
It means all sorts of subtle stuff if you
know modern biology, but for most people
out there, what it winds-up meaning is:
a deterministic view of life;
one rooted in biology and genetics;
genes equal things that cannot be changed;
inevitable and you might as well not
waste resources trying to fix;
might as well not put societal energies into trying
to improve because it's inevitable and it's unchangeable...
and that is sheer nonsense.
[Disease]
It is widely thought that conditions like
ADHD are genetically programmed
That conditions like schizophrenia are genetically programmed.
The truth is the opposite.
Nothing is genetically programmed.
There are very rare diseases
a small handful
extremely sparsely represented in the population
that are truly genetically determined.
Most complex conditions
might have a predisposition that has a genetic component
but a predisposition is not the same as a predetermination.
The whole search for the source of diseases in the genome
was doomed to failure before anybody even thought of it
because most diseases are not genetically predetermined.
Heart disease, cancers, strokes
rheumatoid conditions, autoimmune conditions in general
mental health conditions, addictions...
none of them are genetically determined.
Breast cancer, for example, out of 100 women with breast cancer
only seven will carry the breast cancer genes.
93 do not
and out of 100 women who do have the genes
not all of them will get cancer.
[Behavior]
Genes are not just things that make us behave
in a particular way regardless of our environment.
Genes give us different ways of responding to our environment.
And, in fact, it looks as if some of the early
childhood influences and the kind of child rearing
affect gene expression
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