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by copsarebastards 3890 days ago
That’s the danger of Occam’s razor and of simple answers. “Simplicity” is often a hiding place for our biases. We reach the conclusion we want to reach and then call it simple. --Plaza Garabaldi

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that I don't actually agree with you that brains being hardwired with information is that hard to explain.

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Great, I want to know more about it. Do you have some references on that?
Try interpreting the observation of animals & humans through a lens of their behavior being similar given certain contexts.
I don't want to solve a riddle here, but I am genuinely interested in the evidence supporting the nativist hypothesis in this context, especially on how you'd pass abstract information through genes. Do you have any reference, a good scientific paper that could be an entry point?