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#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Dana Research Puts the Nail in the Coffin of Disorders

The concept of disorders like schis phrania is itself misleading, and it makes sense to talk more in terms of dimensions for traits. Any gean you find is distributed through the population just as depression symptoms are almost qter quantitatively distributed. The dana research, i think, puts the nail in the coffin of diagnoses. You never find jeans for a disorder. There's'. An analogue point to make about the brain. So the real picture is, know, of pliotrope, where any one gene, in this case, contributes to many traits....

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