Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.
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There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.
So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.
People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.
Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.
The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
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