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Ep. 102: Genetic engineering and the biological basis of intelligence. | Steven Hsu

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The Ethics of Adoption

Some people are very worried that that molecular machinery has some basic operating code that makes one human different from another human. And I'm different from you because of my own free will and what my mom fed me for breakfast. When I was 12. They were they for some reason much prefer the latter narrative than the idea that the molecular machinery controls things. This is all well known if you go to any university in the country. But those people are under constant attack, even from the other psychologists down the hall who don't like what they have to say. Yeah. All of human history is really the story of us creating greater degrees of control over our environments internally and externally. That's how we

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