> Michael Smith wrote:
>> Frankly, though this sounds rather grand, it's also nonsensical.
>> People are born with spinal cords, livers, etc. These structures are
>> not "socially conditioned", and they can do certain things and not
>> others, period, full stop.
>
> The existence of people with spinal cords, livers, etc is due to the
> expression of genetic instructions in a socially conditioned
> environment. Again, the fundamental error here is assuming that there
> are some biological factors that exist as independent elements that
> influence the development of human characteristics.
>
> Miles
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Precisely the kind of statements that scientific realists love to make fun of.
Ian