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by yonoataraxia 2938 days ago
Maybe this is more than semantic discrepancies here. There is evidence for "learning by experience" that can be inherited. I suggest reading about epigenetics and how the experiences of your ancestors might be encoded using switches on your DNA (which turn areas on or off and gives the organism a way to pass on knowledge - hence "learning by experience" supported by epigenetics).

See e.g. [1] or [2] - even simpler organisms like worms have this ability, it is very likely that we also have those capabilities (because we are descended from simpler organisms).

I hope that you find something interesting in the current research of biology and psychology, some things are not like what we used to think.

[1] http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences... [2] https://futurism.com/memories-can-inherited-scientists-may-j...