Hey, appreciate your reply to my comment! And fair response, I'm glad to hear from scientists that are able to talk about open research, as opposed to trying to

Hey, appreciate your reply to my comment! And fair response, I'm glad to hear from scientists that are able to talk about open research, as opposed to trying to make a dogmatic point or conjecture without evidence. I like the view that this is an open problem and an area of active research, much more than the more conventional, lay-person settling of the issue as "developed an ear for the language" and that's the end of it. The impressive work of people like Steven Pinker and Chomsky (in his actual academic field) is to look very carefully at different ethnographic groups, and the larger cultures those groups are embedded in. By doing so, finding groups isolated enough or with a materially different context, such that they don't exhibit the same patterns. The title of the article felt like a bait-and-switch, I guess. When I realized it was on betterexplained, it did make more sense that it was ultimately about mathematical reasoning. No worries!