Gene Talk #8: Genetic Determinism at Seldo.com

This week’s Gene Talk from Seldo.com brings up the hot-button topic of genetic determinism. Laurie said:

Are our lives just the emergent behaviour of the interactions of our genes with our environment? Is our free will an illusion, no more free than a drop of water is free to choose the random path it takes down a windshield—unpredictable, but with an inevitable result?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Check out the heated discussion we had in April.

This essay by Professor Patricia S. Greenspan also addresses the issue: Free Will and Genetic Determinism. (Brings back memories of the year-long series of philosophy courses I took in college. Wish I’d paid more attention back then!)

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