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Um, all the things that are not bodily fluids. And anyway you picked one particular bodily fluid, not even essential to the functioning of a body.
by jergosh 10y ago
Um, all the things that are not bodily fluids. And anyway you picked one particular bodily fluid, not even essential to the functioning of a body.
- daxorid 10y agoAre you positing that an enormous differential in genetic supply will result in no difference in reproductive strategy and therefore no difference in evolved psychology? Or put another way, that everything we know about supply/demand curves and evolution is wrong?
- jergosh 10y agoI happen to be an evolutionary biologist and I said nothing about reproductive strategies. You would first need to establish a link between reproductive strategy and psychology (evolutionary psychology is a bit of a joke science, I'm afraid) and then between psychology and brain structure.
- pbhjpbhj 10y ago>You would first need to establish a link between [...] then between psychology and brain structure. You can alter psychology of a person by altering brain structure, surely that link is well established even if the finer details aren't known?
- jergosh 10y agoYou can change the way a program executes by interfering with the hardware. You can also run different programs on the same hardware.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoThat's a link between the program and the hardware, which is the analogue of the demand that was set. You can run the same program on different hardware, and run the same program on the same hardware and get different results. I'm not sure the analogy gets us very far.
- jergosh 10y agoHopefully far enough to illustrate that "altering brain structure changes personality" isn't the same as "different personalities have to have a basis in brain structure."
- forgetsusername 10y agoI didn't "pick" anything. The argument was made that "bodily fluids" can't be a differentiator between men and women.