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Re:Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait by theoh on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:27PM (#17359946)
Presumably they mean that material evolution doesn't involve ideas, which is what abstractions are.

This is a physicalist line to take which implies that the universe is entirely material, and abstraction is just something human minds perceive.

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Re:Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait by danharaj on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:42PM (#17360060)
> ...abstraction is just something human minds perceive.

This itself is a physical phenomenon :)

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Re:Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait by goatlover on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:08PM (#17361031)
Makes things tricky, doesn't it? We utilize abstraction to make theories of a world that doesn't have abstractions.
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Re:Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait by theoh on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:20AM (#17363110)
For physicalists, yes.
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