You appear to be on some kind of different planet to me—and are so far away that I can’t easily see where your ideas are coming from.
The idea I was trying to convey was really fairly simple, though:
“Small chunks of heritable information” (a.k.a. “genes”) are one thing, and the term “preferences” refers to a different concept.
As an example of a preference that is not inherited, consider the preference of an agent for cats—after being bitten by a dog as a child.
As an example of something that is inherited that is not a preference, consider the old socks that I got from my grandfather after his funeral.
These are evidently different concepts—thus the different terms.
Thanks for your terminology feedback. Alas, I am unmoved. That’s the best terminology I have found, and you don’t provide an alternative proposal. It is easy to bitch about terminology—but not always so easy to improve on it.
You appear to be on some kind of different planet to me—and are so far away that I can’t easily see where your ideas are coming from.
The idea I was trying to convey was really fairly simple, though:
“Small chunks of heritable information” (a.k.a. “genes”) are one thing, and the term “preferences” refers to a different concept.
As an example of a preference that is not inherited, consider the preference of an agent for cats—after being bitten by a dog as a child.
As an example of something that is inherited that is not a preference, consider the old socks that I got from my grandfather after his funeral.
These are evidently different concepts—thus the different terms.
Thanks for your terminology feedback. Alas, I am unmoved. That’s the best terminology I have found, and you don’t provide an alternative proposal. It is easy to bitch about terminology—but not always so easy to improve on it.