One of the oldest debates in intellectual history revolves around the somewhat nebulous concept of innateness. How much of the human mind is built-in, and how much of it is constructed by experience? Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018)
Connectionism... taken... broadly... could help us answer... what the mind's basic building blocks are and how those... could be implemented in the brain. The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and cognitive Science (2001)