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kind that would indoctrinate one into cross dressing. True. Conversely, what about those of us who appar- ently never had any of what might be called "pre- cipitating experiences" and still became TVs. I agree, and point out as I did in my refutation, there is apparently something different about Paderwski and Rembrant in comparison to an ordinary man. Further more, we can all agree that there are lots of diff- erences to be found between people. Where do they come from, only the environment (excluding true genetic differences)? I say, "No, it's more than that but not in the specific way that people are inclined to think". There is surely no Gene or "neural circuit", or brain center that is specific for musicianship, or artistry any more than for TV. But I will agree that there is some difference in the vague, tenuous, indefineable, unknown (and maybe unknowable) some things that for lack of a better word, we call potentials of various individuals. Obviously we would all agree that artists and music- ians must be "artistic", sensitive, perceptive, etc. and that they must also have visual appreciation, tonal accuracy, manual dexterity, etc. The potentials for developing these characteristics in high degree are evidently present in some but absent in others. Yet at the same time what good would such potentials have done Paderwski or Rembrandt had they been born into some African tribe with very low cultural and musical development. They might have become the greatest drum beater or totem pole carver the tribe had ever seen but they would not have been what we know them to have been because the environment into which they were born was not such as to stimulate and to afford the opportunity to express, the potent- ials they had.

Does it sound like I was veering to the "Nature" side? Well to a degree I am and I warned you earl- ier that I would. Somehow potentials do exist in one person that do not exist in another. How, why and what the mechanism is we do not know and poss- ibly can never know. But in the field of sex and

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