Meant to be shaped by experience
In every way, it seems, conscious, willed life has advantages over automatic, gene-determined life. Yet, as James Mark Baldwin realised and modern Artificial-Intelligence nerds appreciate, the dichotomy is a false one. The brain is created by genes. It is only as good as its innate design. The very fact that it is a machine designed to be modified by experience is written in the genes. The mystery of how is one of the great challenges of modern biology. But that the human brain is the finest monument to the capacities of genes there is no doubt. It is the mark of a great leader that he knows when to delegate. The genome knew when to delegate.
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