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> Literally absolutely nothing. That position is known as the blank slate and is no longer taken seriously among scientists. Language is an instinct that spri
by gnaritas 10y ago
> Literally absolutely nothing.
That position is known as the blank slate and is no longer taken seriously among scientists. Language is an instinct that springs forth even when there is no language to pick up from the environment. What you think you know is incorrect.
- dschiptsov 10y agoI said in the comment above that "knowledge" is represented as a structure of specialized areas of the brain - stored procedures, if you wish, but the system needs to be "trained" by the spoken (or signed) language from the shared environment. The "machinery" probably has notions of a thing, a process, and an attribute, because it reflects characteristics of shared physical environment and every human language has nouns, verbs and adjectives. There are also notions of time and space, due to serialized input of sense organs and self-centered nature of our perception. Evolved, highly-specialized machinery of the brain's specialized areas reflects major characteristics of the shared environment available to it through the sense organs. There is nothing more than that. No other "knowledge".
- gnaritas 10y agoThat's quite a lot of something for "literally absolutely nothing".