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Not alone, but I do believe the variation in personality (to the extent verifiable by twins studies) is at least half genetic

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118970843.ch...

So it should be at least "50% relevant"?

Anti-intellectualism.. meaning the idea that "common sense" is all that is needed to understand or work with the "self", no need to venture near abstract/symbolic models of "objective reality"

I do think altering epigenetics is the most efficient way to improve character-- but that some people don't think about this way is imho a sign that they don't think biological abstractions should be relevant to their everyday life :)






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