[ale] [OT] Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent or Not.

[da Black Baron]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:25 am, Chris Ricker scratched their ass, sniffed 
their finger and quoth:

> It's a lot more complicated than that, and the probability calculation and
> resulting chance of you being you is *much* more difficult than that.
> You're completely ignoring independent assortment of chromosomes,
> homologous recombination, gene silencing, etc.

I assumed as much to be the case, I just wanted to make the point that there 
were random factors in the makup of a human being at the most basic level.


> And that's assuming you buy into biological determinism (ie, that your
> genes are what make you "you"). There's lots of good evidence that isn't
> 100% the case.

I was speaking of physical characteristics.  I'm by no means a biological 
determinist in terms of what a personality or person *is*...   


> > and the odds of the hormones in your mother causing you to have that
> > extra chromasome)!
>
> Say what?!?! I have no idea what you're talking about, other than that it's
> not true ;-)

"Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid,
One chromasome too many..." ;-)

No.  That isn't really what I meant, I just couldn't resist an oppourtunity to 
quote Devo.  :-p

I meant to have the x-y chromasome *pair* rather than the x-x pair.  Sorry.  

I'll be the first to admit I'm not a geneticist, though... heh.  :-)

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