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Ep 32 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 3. Some readings and remarks

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The Heritability of Happiness

Happiness is 50% heritable, but this asserts nothing about happiness itself. People find the result interesting because they interpret it via everyday meanings of the words "happiness inheritable" The study makes a profound contribution to philosophical and scientific debates about the nature of the human mind. But at no point are you going to suggest that this thing causes that thing, or that, or if you do, you're going to equivocate about it.

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