On the alleged impossibility of innate symbol-manipulation, these two papers suggest otherwise http://www.pnas.org/content/105/37/14222 … and http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6381/1263 … Meanwhile I would suggest that arguing purely on the basis of tweet, blog posts, and hearsay < idealhttps://twitter.com/tyrell_turing/status/1003315128584925184 …
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Whatever innate priors we have were "learned" over the course of evolution. Same goes for the rules we use to change those priors during our lives. So a critical *scientific* question is, "On which side of egg fertilization were cognitive symbol-manipulating abilities created?"
this really weakens what you mean by learning is you collapse everything under that umbrella, from Plato to Locke