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The genome is spooky action at a distance. A lot of physical traits seem connected to personality which indicates studies are insufficiently rigorous.


Personality presupposes so many things working that you have basically won at that point.


Nope. Many people both have personalities, and need staff looking after them 24/7. Some of them can't even speak.


They are a tiny fraction of people who died from DNA issues.

People with personalities also have neurons and wonder of wonders a centural nervous system.

PS: It’s hard to get good numbers for this stuff as but many things like drug use my pregnant mothers can cause significant developmental issues. But, everyone has several random mutations and mental problems from them seem to be far less common than other issues. Especially when you exclude things getting passed down over time and just look at new mutations.




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