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Chompsky, in his early days, wrote of deep grammar or deep structure as opposed to surface structure. He theorized that there was a universal set of semantic concepts represented in human brains -- like "verbs" or "noun phrases" and how they interconnect. But Chompsky didn't take this too far. The work in this paper may be teasing out what this human "deep structure" is, a sort of world view and social view that's at least partly genetically encoded.