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Ah, but might it be that we ARE born with enhanced ability to learn certain
classes of structures within language, certain types of vocabulary before
others, and certain memes similarly? Consider the face-recognizer in the
cortex. Nobody had to be taught the importance of a face. Imprinting in
birds? Learning and decision tasks put into formats compatible with an
animal's normal activities will be better executed than those which in alien
ones.
Jess Tauber
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