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  • pango1

    Wisdom implies experience. You can not genetically transfer experience to others.

    • we now know that your dna changes over the course of your life so in a way it does transfer, i know what you mean thoughterry_cloth
    • Changes and transfer are different things. but if like other people said. experience is is unenviable, then maybe the statement works.pango
    • however if an extreme scenario applied to it. locked up in a darkroom with no interaction or random factor in daily routine. wisdom can't be gained.pango
    • what? if you reproduce after your dna is changed due to outside stimuli than that change is transferred. you art school kids are in a allegorical darkroom andterry_cloth
    • yet you still wind up with a relative degree of wisdom, emphasis on relativeterry_cloth
    • *anterry_cloth
    • speaking of plato and allegories. . .terry_cloth
    • memories can be passed down genetically. with them experience comes with.omg
    • Shit really? Memory can be passed down? Not instinct instead?pango
    • instinct has to be stored somewhere in memory.omg
    • i never heard anything about memory in genetics. however experiences can affect your epigenetics and that of your children and grandchildren vvvsarahfailin
    • http://www.scientifi…sarahfailin
    • Interesting.pango

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