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Judith Rich Harris
Judith Rich Harris

Judith Rich Harris is an American psychologist known for her research on children's social behavior. Her book 'The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do' challenges traditional views on the impact of family environment on children's behavior. more

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“I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".”