From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 10:38:16 MDT
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:'
>> I'd guess maybe a second or two, at most, but that's only a
>> hunch. It might be only a couple of nanoseconds. I don't know.
> ### Why do you think so?
I said it was a hunch, Rafal. I don't know the answer to Lee's question.
And I don't believe you do either.
> Genes provide an infinitesimally small amount of the
> information needed to specify a person.
There is nothing more germaine to specifying a person than his genes,
but I am not saying a person is nothing more than his genes.
In my view the development of the personality involves a constant
feedback loop with the genes that influence personality. We perceive our
envioronment and respond to it according to things we've learned from
past experiences, modified by the influences of our genes. Those
perceptions and responses are referenced again in response to similar
stimuli, and again modified by those genes that affect personality. It
is not an either/or proposition. Our personalities are the sum of our
genetic influences and our learned responses.
-gts
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