Genes, Destiny, and the Brain: Deepak Chopra

Read Deepak Chopra's post on Dr. Watson's (who, with Crick and Franklin, solved DNA) comments regarding genetics and destiny...

Watson isn't the first gene devotee who subscribes to the crude notion that biology is destiny. Every day one runs across popular television commentary about some behavior that is "caused by genes" or "caused by the brain." Such a belief runs contrary to even the most basic kind of wisdom. Human beings aren't automatons whose switches are run by brain cells and genes. If we were, then by a reductio ad absurdeum, neurons are smarter than people and genes know more than the mind.