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,
in fact, be a reflection of the environment, which means it would be extraordinarily impoverished. Fortunately for us, we are rigidly preprogrammed with extremely rich systems that are part of our biological endowment. Correspondingly, only a small amount of rather degenerate experience 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.Right. The basic system itself developed over long periods of evolutionary development. We 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 an extremely rich system which allows him to act in the free and creative fashion which, in fact, is normal for humans. We can say anything that we want to over an infinite range. 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.
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