> Aren't you assuming that humans are born with some kind of blank slate of a brain?
No; FTA:
>> ... humans are born with extremely sophisticated programming, provided by evolution. That programming integrates information from all our ancestors, arguably going back to the origin of life on earth.
> What if they don't get it from their senses.
That's a core question; FTA:
>> Is “pre-training” on visual data the secret to our success?
>> No.
>> Because… blind people? What are we doing here?
>> Deaf people show that (non-verbal) sound isn’t critical either....
>> Or maybe all that other sensory data is irrelevant. I don’t know. But that’s kind of the point—...
No; FTA:
>> ... humans are born with extremely sophisticated programming, provided by evolution. That programming integrates information from all our ancestors, arguably going back to the origin of life on earth.
> What if they don't get it from their senses.
That's a core question; FTA:
>> Is “pre-training” on visual data the secret to our success?
>> No.
>> Because… blind people? What are we doing here?
>> Deaf people show that (non-verbal) sound isn’t critical either....
>> Or maybe all that other sensory data is irrelevant. I don’t know. But that’s kind of the point—...