I could ask just the same why you’d identify so strongly with a mere pattern of neural activation that make up the memes in the child’s mind. This preference of mine is getting close to the bedrock of my preference ordering, I want my child to share my genes because that’s just kind of what I want, I don’t know how to explain that in terms of any more fundamental desire of mine.
But like I said, I’d be fine with CRISPR to change a small fraction of the genes which have an out-sized impact on success, what I don’t want is to change (or worse, take from someone else) the large number of genes which don’t particularly influence success or intelligence, but which make me who I am.
That’s really weird. Why do you identify so strongly with a sequence of nucleotides? Isn’t it more important that a child inherits your memes?
I could ask just the same why you’d identify so strongly with a mere pattern of neural activation that make up the memes in the child’s mind. This preference of mine is getting close to the bedrock of my preference ordering, I want my child to share my genes because that’s just kind of what I want, I don’t know how to explain that in terms of any more fundamental desire of mine.
But like I said, I’d be fine with CRISPR to change a small fraction of the genes which have an out-sized impact on success, what I don’t want is to change (or worse, take from someone else) the large number of genes which don’t particularly influence success or intelligence, but which make me who I am.