Nature vs. Nurture, Neurogenetics, Personality, Autism, Schizophrenia, Synesthesia & Free Will | Kevin Mitchell | 78
Mind & Matter
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Are We Just Blank Slats?
We have predispositions just by virtue of being human beings. People don't get so hung up about those, even though they vastly constrain our behaviour much more than the little, subtle variations that we call personality. So i like to think of character as emerging through time in a way that is not just antecedent causes that we didn't have any involvement in. We're moulding our own e habits and our own character. It gets into a whole area of a moral philosophy, really. And it goes back to people like aristotle and ciceroa. In some letters he wrote to his son, which sound remarkably modern these days. He talks about how our character emerges
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