innate behaviors of human beings →
i can’t keep putting down my drink to reply to this thread. i’ve lost interest in having two one-sided conversations with ourselves…i blame nurture and chomsky’s work as it pertains to language and referents for this.
To be fair to Chomsky and your points, universal grammar says that humans have the innate ability to learn human language. But this requires (a) people to learn language from and (b) a minimal amount of intelligence. The two innate behaviors you mention—the need to suckle and fear from falling—occur “regardless of intellegence or race or birth trauma”, but those factors (save race) can impair language development, so language is not a strictly universal context-free behavior. Feral children no doubt have the need to suckle and fear of falling at birth, but they can’t do human language unless rescued by a certain age.
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To be fair to Chomsky and your points, universal grammar says that humans have the innate ability to learn human...
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can’t keep putting down...this thread. i’ve lost interest
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a nurture-based concern? my whole point is that the nature/nurture shit is stupid and the idea that we can just throw an...
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assumed most posted declarations were thinly veiled sexual innuendoes (like me),...much...
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ummm. my half-cocked reaction comes from this being the field i work in. and study. i wasn’t trying to pick a fight,...
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sort of… innate is an incredibly loaded term. having something at birth may not mean innate in
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