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This is not true according to Innateness or Nativism in Cognition. According to this theory we have a built-in faculty for things like language (Chomsky) and h
by avgcorrection 3y ago
This is not true according to Innateness or Nativism in Cognition.
According to this theory we have a built-in faculty for things like language (Chomsky) and how to interact with the world. We haven’t bootstrapped ourselves; that would mean that the Blank Slate theory is true.
Could a human tribe who was raised on a different planet (with completely alien concepts) survive? That’s unclear. Maybe we have evolved to only be able to learn Earth-concepts.
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoOkay but the point still holds for every other invention of the human mind. Writing, pottery, the wheel, agriculture, fortresses, cities, churches, warships. We made all of these things from nothing. There were no prior examples. No training set. Human intelligence has bootstrapped a complex digital civilization from a starting point of illiterate nomads.