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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)
Noam Chomsky is perhaps the scholar most identified with nativism, ...children ...born with a “language acquisition device”... or what Steven Pinker... called a "language instinct."
Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018)
In... the biology of innateness... I made a foundational distinction between... "prewiring" and "rewiring", and suggested that the biological evidence for both processes was overwhelming.
Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018)
[N]ativism is hardly a central topic in contemporary AI thought.
Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018)
Pinker, Peter Marler... and myself... have frequently argued... [that] a significant part of a creature’s innate armamentarium consists... of [innate]... mechanisms... that enables learning.
Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018)