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The article includes this passage: > Might this new understanding increase our capacity for self-awareness and empathy? If we can grasp the potential impact of
by ch4s3 2y ago
The article includes this passage:
> Might this new understanding increase our capacity for self-awareness and empathy? If we can grasp the potential impact of our ancestors’ experiences on our own behaviour, might we be more understanding of others, who are also carrying the inherited weight of experience?
They are literally refereeing to the concept of inherited trauma and inter-generational memory throughout the piece. It's a favorite hobby-horse of the guardian and while they are somewhat subtle here and dress it up by picking a very old study, they are in fact talking about the kind of ideas appearing in popular self help books like The Body Keeps the Score, and other things in their orbit. The author of the article in question is hawking a similar book on the guardian's books platform.
- moralestapia 2y agoIt has a question mark. Claims don't have question marks.
- ch4s3 2y agoThe whole article is full of similar statements, I just found that short paragraph illustrative.
- moralestapia 2y agoWell, it definitely wasn't illustrative as a claim. But since there are so many such statemetns, feel free to post a few examples.
- ch4s3 2y agoThis is pretty misleading: >Scientists working in the emerging field of epigenetics have discovered the mechanism that allows lived experience and acquired knowledge to be passed on within one generation, by altering the shape of a particular gene. Also pretty debatable: > or the trauma inflicted on your grandfather when he fled his home as a refugee, might go on to shape your parents’ brains, their behaviours and eventually yours. Or a reference to the thoroughly academically panned The Body Keeps the Score: > It’s not just our body that keeps the score but our very genes.