Joined: 31 Dec 2011 Gender: Male Posts: 12,183 Location: A swiftly tilting planet
13 Oct 2015, 2:24 pm
Microbiology & epigenetics appears much like machinery from an outside perspective. I think individuality gets exchanged at face-level, whereas all the same basic machinery can be found in your little toe.
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No, nobody is truly an individual---people can be readily divided with a big sword or a guillotine, for example.
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Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Age: 30 Gender: Male Posts: 1,343 Location: Location
14 Oct 2015, 11:32 am
No Human has the same genes as another one. There are too many variables for two people to live exactly the same life. Therefore it takes 1 different thing to split an entirely new branch from the trunk (imagine the person as a tree).
Joined: 10 Apr 2014 Age: 42 Gender: Male Posts: 3,603 Location: USA
14 Oct 2015, 3:52 pm
Genetics are unique (aside from rare cases-- i.e. twins), but that does not endow them with individuality. There are two processes at play with humans, there's the genetic component and then there's the social component. While the individual genetics may be unique, that uniqueness is forced to comply to the demands of the social hierarchy. That's why people seem to lack individuality, there are only so many behaviors that are allowed and accepted by the social hierarchy, therefore everyone appears the same because their behaviors are the same.