Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Anatomy is not destiny, but it is not irrelevant either

From The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
The human brain seems to be in a state of uneasy truce, with occasional skirmishes and rare battles. The existence of brain components with predispositions to certain behavior is not an invitation to fatalism or despair: we have substantial control over the relative importance of each component. Anatomy is not destiny, but it is not irrelevant either.

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