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Change in brain chemistry and future generations???

 

“Second, these results tell us that our bodies, brains, and interactions with our environment provide the mostly unconscious basis for our everyday metaphysics, that is, our sense of what is real” (17).

I cannot help but think especially of the “interactions with our environment” and, if it changes the functioning of the brain…especially in regards to interpersonal relationships and as in Darwin’s theory, if this change would begin to be passed down to the future generations…I do not know if I am understanding this reading correctly or if I am “telling what I feel like I cannot tell” properly, if that makes any sense at all.

 I am wondering if there is a change in the brain chemistry and can tacit knowledge be passed down like other inherited traits?

Anyway…I am still trying to wrap my head around this reading.

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