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.
