ABSTRACT
Genetic science is both fascinating and disturbing. It can spark enthusiasm, but it can also feed fear. By delving into the possibly inherited genetic factors in the body, genetics sheds new light on what was previously regarded as an ungraspable and mysterious field of knowledge. A genome-based prediction possibility is more than mere scientific information. Dr Sylvain Missonnier distinguishes between anticipation and prediction: “anticipation is moderate and different from the omen’s omnipotence. Prediction involves the risk of taking away the unknown part of the future one might create. Prediction belongs to the realm of medical knowledge. Meanwhile, anticipation belongs to the individual’s conscious or unconscious quest. When prediction is a necessary medical act dissolving uncertainty, anticipation is the individual’s quest to grasp knowledge that is announced to them. Human temporality is different from object temporality. Human temporality is distinguished by the ability to experience a new start through deferred action and by the ability to anticipate the ending.
