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DArtagnan
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It can be, I'm sure. But, I'm also pretty sure, it need not. People are different, in temperament, emotional color, and response to stimulus. We even know the genetic causes for some of those differences -- for example, the genetic basis for how people react to bitter tastes. I do not believe that everyone is born equally talented; a tabula rasa that life writes on. We're born different. Rith's list of types of intelligence is one way of describing those differences.
To be honest, I don't know exactly what I believe in those terms.
But my perception is that genetic causes and genetic differences can be hard to set apart from the results of environmental conditions. It's my personal theory, at least, that many detectable differences may as well be there BECAUSE of environmental conditions - and that you can detect them doesn't necessarily mean that it's "hardcoded wiring" or "genetic disposition" - but it could just as easily be a development based on what you experience in your earliest years, and even what happens in the pre-birth stages. As such, your experiences from the first moment of consciousness (even before) can trigger the development of genetic and even physically detectable differences - and it doesn't have to be the other way around.
I just don't know, but I'm FAR from convinced that because someone has different tastes or a profound lack of appreciation for something, it's based on a hardwired genetically encoded difference.