But I gained a lot of clarity from your sagacious comment – but the fact remains that although DNA may not change, a person may change, in his thinking, attitude and psyche.
Very thoughtful and engaging piece. My first response is like this: An entity remains the same as long as its basic design on the drawing board remains the same. A ship is the development of its drawing board design. Likewise a human being is her DNA design which is unique to her. The looks, or frame of the human being is not frozen in time but is subject to its initial DNA programming that is almost frozen. In fact, even if slight changes in DNA are carried out in some future for medical purposes, still the human being will remain the same. What does that mean? Like a computer, which is known by the computing power of its CPU, the human being is known by her traits, memory, accumulated history (experience) her behaviour (though it may not be as predictable as that of a computing machine). Yet to the the world she is known by her outer looks, her colour, her height, though all or some of them keep on changing drastically with age. You would identify your iPhone with its looks or wallpaper but actually the iPhone is what information it has. (Of course, iPhones or other such machines do not have the kind of uniqueness that human beings have, in spite of the fact that all humans are the same 🤔🤔).
I started with some clarity. But am ending as clueless as the ship herself.
But I gained a lot of clarity from your sagacious comment – but the fact remains that although DNA may not change, a person may change, in his thinking, attitude and psyche.
Very thoughtful and engaging piece. My first response is like this: An entity remains the same as long as its basic design on the drawing board remains the same. A ship is the development of its drawing board design. Likewise a human being is her DNA design which is unique to her. The looks, or frame of the human being is not frozen in time but is subject to its initial DNA programming that is almost frozen. In fact, even if slight changes in DNA are carried out in some future for medical purposes, still the human being will remain the same. What does that mean? Like a computer, which is known by the computing power of its CPU, the human being is known by her traits, memory, accumulated history (experience) her behaviour (though it may not be as predictable as that of a computing machine). Yet to the the world she is known by her outer looks, her colour, her height, though all or some of them keep on changing drastically with age. You would identify your iPhone with its looks or wallpaper but actually the iPhone is what information it has. (Of course, iPhones or other such machines do not have the kind of uniqueness that human beings have, in spite of the fact that all humans are the same 🤔🤔).
I started with some clarity. But am ending as clueless as the ship herself.