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chromatin | 9 months ago

> There's less than 80 minutes worth of music's worth of information in our genomes

What an insanely bad take.

Not only did you not read and/or comprehend the article, the article itself undersells the information content of the genome (I'll post on this at the top level).

> You are not predisposed to be anything.

This does not logically follow your preceding statement, even if we were to accept the foregoing limited information content as factual

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rhelz|9 months ago

no matter how much information you think is stored in DNA, the information stored in your brain is at least 5 orders of magnitude more. In comparison with what you have learned, your DNA is a rounding error.

What you can learn will just swamp any predispositions you have.