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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
 
The limits of genetic engineering.
Human genes are the necessary recipes for making human brains and bodies, but brains and bodies are manifestly shaped by their experiences. It might be possible someday, using genetic engineering, to give a child a brain smart enough to understand why Heidegger is wrong, but there is no getting around the fact that he will have to undergo the experience of learning about Heidegger first. There are no genes for Heidegger debunking.
Did mother nature not put those genes in, or were they an evolutinary dead end, bred away eons ago?
 
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