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> The brain is a product of not just the genome but the environment in which it develops. You are not just the product of your genome. You are the product of yo
by anamax 16y ago
> The brain is a product of not just the genome but the environment in which it develops. You are not just the product of your genome. You are the product of your genome and the womb in which you were incubated, and the environmental stressors on your mother.
While I may be a product of my genome plus a specific womb with specific stressors (which affected that womb), we're not trying to duplicate me.
It's sufficient to generate a brain from a genome and some womb, aka "development environment".