We are all only a product of our environment.
This is manifestly wrong and preys upon years of nature vs nurture misinformation.
It also renders everything else in the text as unreliable. Highly suggest replacing *only with *also.
We are all only a product of our environment.
This is manifestly wrong and preys upon years of nature vs nurture misinformation.
It also renders everything else in the text as unreliable. Highly suggest replacing *only with *also.
j4k3@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Help me understand your point better. I see it as a truth that only depends on your layer of abstraction where grounding assumptions are what fail. I need substance not convention.
verdi@feddit.org 13 hours ago
We are also a product of our environment, genetics does the rest.
This is not assumption, this is fact.
j4k3@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Why are you so meh? I don’t get that part at all, the major angst and negativity are… Who hurt you? I did not publish an official statement of an academic institution. I was simply casually chatting away at 1am.
Regardless, all the genetics in the world will do nothing for you if you are stranded on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific, and never get rescued. I could go much further into this, but this angst is not a very pleasant digital neighborly type of conversation. I typically blocked people that did this in the past, but am now more inclined to confront that meta directly.
Facts do not exist except in the fantasies of ideologues. Dichotomous logic is always an oversimplification of reality. I do not care about tribalism, academic or otherwise, instead of the nuances of reality. You cannot become a physicist from that desert island regardless of your genetics. Your life’s achievements are a product of that circumstance. While it is true, that that island has little initial influence on your initial genetics, even that is not completely true over time. Your diet, routine, stresses, and mental state will shape your genetics with time, the extent of which is still unknown to our very incomplete understanding of biology. No one is an unchanging container of genetics separate from their environment. The environment does not create much of an initial state, form one perspective, but in reality even that is false due to temporal and regional assumptions of scope, as everyone is part of an unbroken chain tracing all the way back to the conditions present in the first surviving life on the planet. This pathway can be taken all the way back to the initial singularity and state during the expansion of the universe. We were all present in that singularity in some very abstract sense of us. Starting from any other point in the timeline is an arbitrary assumption I did nothing to ground as reference in my statement.
verdi@feddit.org 7 hours ago
bad bot