Hardcore blank-slaters must either never spend time around children, or view them through rigidly ideological eyes.
Having multiple children is a daily, delightful refutation of the blank slate hypothesis. They are so different.
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Recently I asked a mother of (fraternal) twins what they had in common. She thought for a long time, then said "nothing."
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A blank slater? Meaning nurture/someone's experiences are more important to someone's development than nature/dna?
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even one is enough to see those effects in place
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nature, nurture and neither
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@spwells yet, they manage to reflect all our bad qualities back at us :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Having a son and a daughter (I think you have 2 boys) is even more dramatic a refutation
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@paulg being so different is an evolutinary advantage, but this does not negate the blank slate theoryThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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yes, my children are remarkably different from each other and from me and my wife.
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Although knowledge and knowledge processing are different things.
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