Re: Blank slate learning

Curt Welch wrote:

Compared to the large and
complex behavior value system we have as adults, a new born human baby is
for all intent and purposes, blank.

Many emphasize the opposite perspective - e.g. see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_Instinct

It was once thought that humans had relatively little
instinctual knowledge. However, that view is now
widely regarded as being incorrect.

Sure, the adult brain is more complex than the brain-
construction recipe in the genome. But it doesn't
follow that the brain-recipe is simple - it isn't.
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