This could go into a number of sub threads, so I'll just put it here. I don't think that we are a blank slate formed exclusively by environment and culture, but rather a blend of that and genetics including racial genetic characteristics. Genes quickly redistribute but Neanderthals have been extinct for thousands of years and remain in t…
This could go into a number of sub threads, so I'll just put it here. I don't think that we are a blank slate formed exclusively by environment and culture, but rather a blend of that and genetics including racial genetic characteristics. Genes quickly redistribute but Neanderthals have been extinct for thousands of years and remain in the homosapien genome. The ratio is unknown and most likely variable.
Even at some future date when quantum supercomputers are a thing, I doubt that we will be able to definitively answer that question. I/we don't know. It is therefore difficult to logically dismiss or magnify the importance of either.
The best that we seem to be able to do is observe general observations, but then that is the stuff of stereotypes, and we know where that can lead without proper caution. Does it matter if those observations are genetic or cultural as far as how we navigate life?
This could go into a number of sub threads, so I'll just put it here. I don't think that we are a blank slate formed exclusively by environment and culture, but rather a blend of that and genetics including racial genetic characteristics. Genes quickly redistribute but Neanderthals have been extinct for thousands of years and remain in the homosapien genome. The ratio is unknown and most likely variable.
Even at some future date when quantum supercomputers are a thing, I doubt that we will be able to definitively answer that question. I/we don't know. It is therefore difficult to logically dismiss or magnify the importance of either.
The best that we seem to be able to do is observe general observations, but then that is the stuff of stereotypes, and we know where that can lead without proper caution. Does it matter if those observations are genetic or cultural as far as how we navigate life?