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Nature v. Nurture
An interesting article from Time Magazine on new ideas from the human genome project and the weight of experience on our psyches. I’ve always like this binary: nature v. nurture, because it seems fruitful, useful for picking at and thinking on. What I don’t know is when to use “v.” and when to use “vs.” or whether it matters.
Patrick • Recommendations • 05/29/03 • 3 comments
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David • 06/06/03 • 10:08 PM:Pat,
Just wanted to let you know - that was a great article. Pretty short, but with interesting info and stats. I’m ultra-interested in such things as nature v. nurture. I’ve started reading a book about it called “The Dependent Gene”. It’s okay so far, hoping it’d be better.
Dad • 06/07/03 • 1:53 PM:All of this is highly “self-referential.” Experience changing tendencies changing perception changing experience… Self-reference has been associated with intelligence (See, Godel, Escher, and Bach), and philosophical/logical problems (This sentence is false.). (Do I need two periods there?) We’ve always know that both nature and nurture are important, we just wanted one to trump the other. Now, we seem doomed to uncertainty about the answer, both for individuals and humanity at large. I too am interested in this argument, and how DNA causes a unique human being (or any other being) to be produced. And what about this free will thing?
Dan • 06/07/03 • 3:26 PM:dad, you do not need 2 periods there. sentences inside parentheses are to be punctuated if the sentence requires a ? or (if you want) !. if your parenthetic statement is outside of a sentence you need to put a period (if it’s a sentence). (i read elements of style yesterday.) i’m probably not covering everything, who cares. put a period wherever you want.
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