This seems unworkable because it ignores the role instincts have in living things, which are prior beliefs about the world put immediately into action. For exa

This seems unworkable because it ignores the role instincts have in living things, which are prior beliefs about the world put immediately into action. For example, an infant has an instinct to breathe right after birth. Is that a belief or an action? It’s both—a strategy to survive in the world encoded in genes attached to an implicit belief. An infant that tries to breathe two minutes later would suffer hypoxia and brain damage, while one that tries sooner will choke. There is no pure tabula rasa untainted by priors, as soon as you acknowledge minds are embedded in bodies shaped by millions of years of evolution and steeped in survival tactics, and what are tactics except a set of useful priors about good actions?