From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 19:19:13 MDT
gts writes
> Currently I am puzzling over the ... why do people seem so
> loathe to acknowledge the influence of DNA on personality?
> The evidence is clear that genes influence personality --
> I've already posted three research abstracts to support
> my case -- so why are people in such denial?
You are confusing two quite distinct phenomena. There
is the common reluctance (in the SSSM (Standard Social
Sciences Model)) to acknowledge hereditarian or genetic
influence, see
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/papers/ridley/html/node1.html
or, from what I've heard, Pinker's new book.
Sometimes in Bell Curve type discussions, people disagree
about the extent to which genes affect behavior. But all
this is on the one hand.
What is pertinent to THIS THREAD is something completely
different! Several of us deny your claim that the DNA
is the *only* repository within a human being of the
data important to making up him or her. (If this is not
your claim, please correct me.)
Several of us persist in believing the blueprint/building
analogy, although a modified analogy wherein the workmen
merely find it easier to consult the blueprints for any
structural changes (rather than scope out the whole building).
My question and Rafal's reply,
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gts wrote:
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>> One more question: suppose that protein synthesis
>> had been stopped instead. How long before there is
>> a noticeable effect on your delivery?
>
> 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?
### You might want to peruse some data on the speed of mRNA synthesis and
### processing, transport to the cytoplasm, protein translation, ...effects
### of blocking of protein synthesis in neural cells take many hours to
### show up...
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to which you admit that you don't know the answer, may
be crucial! What if the answer does turn out that *hours*
could pass with no untoward effects on me and my behavior?
If that were established, then would you concede that all
that is *necessary* to make me (or upload me) resides---
---however implicitly, in the remainder of my body?
Lee
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