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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is It Really Far-Fetched to Privilege Genetic Lottery Over Everything Else?

There is a great philosophy question here because I think we wouldn't call eating healthy food cheating academically or exercising or even reading a book but taking a certain drug counts and that's probably just a relic of olden days right. We're maybe privileging the wrong things the idea that the genetic lottery is what we should you know rely on rather than the work that people put into actually enhancing their well-being and their cognitive states. So I can very easily see that employers maybe even universities seeking to let in students would want to take a quick brain scan so we can make sure that there's no dirty skeletons in your closet. It's happening. The idea that you know this isn't science

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