Word Edward. I don't know what's "true" about why we are the way we are but there is a lot science cannot reducibly test and conclude.-- I have very little confidence in this kind of research. Modern science denies the existence of spirit, or @ least considers it not a subject for science, & so ignores it, which usually amounts to denying it. OTOH, emotional/spiritual experiences do have physical effects, so science, in its prejudice, concludes that these physical signs are "the cause." Rupert Sheldrake is the only guy I know of who has figgered this out, w/ the possible exception of Deepak Chopra. The result is a dead end that does a *lot* of damage. One recent example of progress: British researchers (I think) found that rat pups inherited conditioned fear: specifically: they did a "Pavlov's dog" number w/ rose water & electric shocks so that rats got scared of the smell of rose water. Then they bred then, and found that the children were scared of it before they had any training. This torpedoes a sacred tenet of centuries' standing: acquired characteristics cannot be inherited. But recent advances in instrumentation have shown that experiences can generate molecules in the cell that turn off genes, & @ least some of these molecules can stay attached when the sperm or egg cells split their DNA (instrument technology is just beginning to reveal this). It's called "epigenetic inheritance."
The article came out in "Lancet" a few months ago, as I recall.
Nil Carborundum Illegitemi,
Ed Rippy
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