Agreed, without this shared basic structure from birth we would never be able to make sense of any of our sensory inputs of sight/sound/etc, let alone learn a l

Agreed, without this shared basic structure from birth we would never be able to make sense of any of our sensory inputs of sight/sound/etc, let alone learn a language. Being born with a "clean slate" mind would make interacting with the universe akin to interacting with a black box.