I am dumb, I am aware. If twins have the same DNA, are they the same person from a biological standpoint?

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    1 year ago

    DNA spells out how your cells work. But it doesn’t control what environment you interact with. What you learn depends on your environment, not your DNA: for example, if twin babies are separated at birth and one grows up with English-speakers and the other grows up with Polish-speakers, one would be fluent in English and the other in Polish. They’re clearly not “the same person” even if they’re running the same cellular source code.

    Put another way: If you and I are running the same browser on the same OS, that doesn’t mean I know all your passwords.