Human nature and the blank slate6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There are two political reasons why the blank slate idea decline is considered to be congenial. Many studies of identical twins show that they have astonishing similarities even if they were separated at birth and tested being adult. Others are proved by scientific studies, such as human universals study in anthropology, that defines set of emotions, behaviors, and worldviews similar to all 6000 cultures in the world, or the study of Paul Thompson and his colleagues in genetics and neuroscience who measured using MRI that the more DNA two people share, the more correlations in different parts of their brains exist. Many of them are based on common sense, as for example, it is obvious that children are born with some certain temperament and talents. There are reasons to doubt that human mind is a blank slate. The TED speech “Human nature and the blank slate” by Steven Pinker is based on the ideas developed in his book “The Blank Slate” where he declines the popular idea of human mind being a blank slate at birth. ![]()
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