>>509107537>You're born with preinstalled emotional responses to thingsfirst of all thats the same thing, it just moves it one step further
how would the brain we born with the knowledge of what that thing is to respond to it?
we have eyes to recognize the sense data, but we have no preinstalled knowledge of it, we only learn what something is after seeing it once, you are implying we know what it is before ever experiencing it, which is impossible unless were born with preinstalled knowledge of it, this implies you are a rationalist.
a baby crying has nothing to do with being sexually attracted to a specific thing, crying is once again something instinctual which is what i already admitted to, of course there is still a difference between knowledge which is required for making choices on mating, and a mere instinct that is only mirrored in our own solo behavior.
>>509107660>Absolutely nonsense statement, your brain has structure from development which means it has information content within it.you are completely misunderstanding, the reason why is because i brought up rationalism/empiricism which both are actually philosophies of the mind, that is rather the metaphysical idea of the mind that is separate from our body/brain, similar to substance dualism, when the reality of the world is physicalism thus no body/mind dualism, but instead only a physical brain.
i do admit that some behaviors are instinctual, but also accept that we are not born with knowledge, even the man who created the distinction between rationalism and empiricism aka immanuel kant accepted that neither are true but that rather both are partly true, altough he too was an idealist and not a physicalist.
from a physicalist view, obviously metaphysical ideas cannot work properly, and this is why empiricism is also slightly false (due to the mind simply not actually existing like the brain does), but rationalism is even more false.
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