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A comment on Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017). Parent comment

Re:Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017) by sifar on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:43AM (#22222490)
How does knowing more about the physical world help me understand myself better ?

People more than two millennia later still find what he said relevant. What is it that we have produced in the last century would meet that test ? How much of that will be due to our increased knowledge and technology ?

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Re:Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017) by Vaskivo on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:52AM (#22223384)
Knowing genetics makes you understand why and how you are similar to your parents.

Knowing that physical and psychological state are linked, and that they affect each other.

We have ways of introspecting one's mind and body and understand the the "whys" of being an individual and also Human.

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Re:Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017) by heavenlyblue on Saturday February 08, 2020 @04:46AM (#22274952)
Except genetics is too low level to describe anything but the most basic features.

On that matter - my dad and my grandpa were alcoholics; and thus I have the same vice if I don’t pay attention to my motivations in life.

However knowing genetics didn’t help me understand that :)

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