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You mean, it's only because we are preprogrammed  that we can do all the things we can do? 

Exactly. The point is that  if we really were plastic organisms without an extensive preprogramming,  then the state that our mind achieves would,  

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in fact, be a reflection of the environment, which  means it would be extraordinarily impoverished.  

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Fortunately for us, we are rigidly preprogrammed  with extremely rich systems that are part of our  

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biological endowment. Correspondingly, only a  small amount of rather degenerate experience  

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allows a kind of a great leap  into a rich cognitive system.  

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Essentially uniform in a community. And,  in fact, roughly uniform for the species. Which would've developed over  a countless evolutionary ages.

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Right. The basic system itself developed over  long periods of evolutionary development. We  

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don't know how, really. But, for the  individual, it's present. As a result,   the individual is capable of, with a very  small amount of evidence, of constructing  

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an extremely rich system which allows him to act  in the free and creative fashion which, in fact,  

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is normal for humans. We can say anything  that we want to over an infinite range.  

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Other people will understand us though they've  heard nothing like that before. We're able to do   that precisely because of that rigid programming.  Short of that, we would not be able to at all.