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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
You realize your genetic material is located inside the cells that make up your body, don’t you? Obviously the cell nuclei are small physical components of the environment. The smaller object can be part of the bigger object but the bigger object cannot be part of the smaller object. The ocean isn’t part of the wave; the wave is part of the ocean.
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I think it's pretty misleading to say your genes are part of your environment. Environment infers something external to the organism. You're basically saying the organism itself is part of the environment which renders the term environment functionally meaningless.