tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867343265106830137.post7765054365445840177..comments2023-07-19T05:26:41.766-07:00Comments on RYviewpoint: Do You and I Experience the Same World?RYviewpointhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06689453255540643963noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867343265106830137.post-73994202798764668752010-05-08T15:46:13.933-07:002010-05-08T15:46:13.933-07:00Thanks Thomas, I'm glad you found it topical.
...Thanks Thomas, I'm glad you found it topical.<br /><br />If you combine this with my next post (biological determinism) and you get the scary/interesting idea of how our genes shape us. But I wouldn't get too excited. All the simple and easy one-gene stuff has been isolated. What is left is the multi-gene basis for disease & behaviour & body. And it gets especially complicated when you realize that genes alone don't usually define you (otherwise identical twins would literally be identical down to the day they catch a disease or show a inclination). And I love the wheels-inside-wheels effects of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics" rel="nofollow">epigenetics</a>. From Wikipedia:<br /><br /><i>Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal (but not maternal) grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. The opposite effect was observed for females -- the paternal (but not maternal) granddaughters of women who experienced famine while in the womb (and their eggs were being formed) lived shorter lives on average.</i><br /><br />Notice that this effect does not show up in the sons & daughters. It shows up in the grandsons and granddaughters! And there are sex-linked differences!RYviewpointhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06689453255540643963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867343265106830137.post-21161563035179809572010-05-08T15:21:05.101-07:002010-05-08T15:21:05.101-07:00It is very interesting and sort of coincidental th...It is very interesting and sort of coincidental that you post this because I have talked about this with my wife to some extent. She introduced me to the idea and I was profoundly intrigued by the whole concept. I will be looking into the links now.. But, I had to at least let you know that I appreciated the post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18066585661702469034noreply@blogger.com