RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 26, 2018 at 11:35 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2018 at 11:47 am by Anomalocaris.)
Again, measurement of “special” has to have an stated objective to be meaningful. 98% of our genes may be the same as those of a chimp. But what does that really signify? To say that makes us basically the same as something which shares 98% is a rather fast and loose value judgement devoid of clear definition of what “special” is meant to inform. You can no more fuck a chimp to produce an fertile offspring than you can with a sea anemone. But you may be able to reconstruct lots of missing DNA in humans with the DNA from chimps without too much loss in fidelity. Which is it that you are trying to do seem to inform whether humans ought to be regarded as special? No?
If you stand Gandhi next to hitler, you’d find they share far more then 98% of their genes, more like 99.99% of their genes. It is therefore informative for most purposes to say they are essentially identical?
If you stand Gandhi next to hitler, you’d find they share far more then 98% of their genes, more like 99.99% of their genes. It is therefore informative for most purposes to say they are essentially identical?
