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.
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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.
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.
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.
The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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.
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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