Examining the Relationships between Nature and Genetics and Nurture and Culture. Today I want to say a few words about the relationships between nature and genetics on the one hand, and nurture and culture on the other.  For it seems to me that while nature and nurture are common to all, genetics and culture are more particular or individualistic, pretty much as the male - as opposed to female - input into both soma and psyche.  Anyway, let us say that while nature is the basis of genetic modifications, all arms being pretty much alike but each person's arms being unique to that person alone, so nurture, to move from soma to psyche, is the basis of culture, since while you can lead a horse to water you can't make him drink, as the saying goes, and no amount of instruction in reading and writing will inevitably turn a man, shall we say, into a writer, who is culturally more than the sum of his nurtured parts, so to speak.  But if nature and nurture are more general than particular, more objective than subjective, then genetics and culture must owe more, as suggested above, to the male side of life than to its female side, in view of the extents to which they reflect the particular subjectively, being the product of individualism.  My arm is not the same as your arm, even though all arms, as products of nature, are pretty much alike, and the reason for that is genetic inheritance.  Likewise, my thinking is not the same as your thinking, even though all thoughts, as products of nurture, are pretty similar in their cerebral fundamentals.  Yet the distinction between nature and genetics on the one hand and nurture and culture on the other would indicate that females have an input into psyche no less than males into soma, even if on opposite terms such that we have identified with the general and the particular, nature and nurture in the case of females and genetics and culture in the case of males, the former options objectively general, and therefore collective; the latter ones subjectively particular, and therefore individual, a particle/wavicle dichotomy between determinism and freedom (which is genetic and/or cultural freedom from determinism and therefore from nature and/or nurture, according as to whether somatic or psychic factors are paramount).