Gordon Fitch wrote:
>
> You're supposed to be _just_born_ knowing certain things. I
> don't think this is such an outlandish idea. For instance,
> it could be the case that there is a knowledge X without
>
I'm reading a fairly dull book, at a technical level mostly above my head, entitled *Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain* by Antonio Damasio, He is, according to the note in the back of the book, M.W. Van Allen Prof. of Neurology and Head of the Dept. of Neurology at University of Iowa College of Medicine, and the book also carries blurbs by Oliver Sacks and Jonas Salks. Anyhow, it does give in its plodding way some sense of the excitement in neurology today, and so far as I can tell a fairly good account of how in fact one can be "just born" knowing things. (It at least makes fairly clear the nonsense of evolutionary psychology.) I think it is probably worthwhile browsing in it in a bookstore. It was on the shelf of the local Barnes & Noble.
Carrol