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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (168994)	3/1/2021 4:20:39 AM
From: sense	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maurice Winn Respond to of 217732

"DNA and the secretion of various hormones within the brain and your body heavily affect your metal and physical performance." Which does not convert you into an inanimate object on which the environment acts, or a machine that has your body respond, without choice... and even believing it does is a choice. We are sentient. We have choice. Our DNA gives us potential... which allows us to survive in cold weather sleeping on the ground... but does not require that we do so. We can also choose to build houses... and doing so tends to alter our mood during cold weather... because the DNA and the secretion of various hormones within the brain and your body heavily affect your mental and physical performance.... differently... depending on your choices. The secretion of various hormones within the brain and your body heavily affect your metal and physical performance... when you play video games. Or, when you eat. Fail to ignore the girl walking by. Etc. That we are masses of subtle chemical reactions operating within a structural framework built by those chemical reactions, directed by chemical and electrical impulses... reactive to light, sound, heat... with chemical elements facilitating our senses, and mediating every process employed in making us, and making us capable of becoming sentient, as well as all the physical processes that could have made us into algae instead ? As we are not algae, we should seek to realize our potential as something more... My undergrad degree is in biology... with an upper level emphasis in molecular genetics and physiological ecology... ensuring it is my reason and not my DNA writing this reply. I'd be the first to argue that understanding how something works should not remove our source of wonder. But neither should we succumb to mysticism as an excuse for surrendering to fatalism... which is a choice that has your DNA alter the secretion of various hormones within the brain and your body heavily affecting your metal and physical performance.