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Default What ideas do you believe are innate?

What ideas do you believe are innate?

As in, what ideas do you believe we are born knowing before we even experience anything in the world?

Some options….

a sense of causality (time and space)
basic emotions such as, disgust, surprise, fear, etc.
avoidance of hazards (heights, disease, etc.)
face perception
how to acquire spoken language
notion of good and evil
notion of fairness
notion of altruism (concern for the needs of others)
notion of God(s)
notion of a soul
notion of ethical truths
a desire to “subjugate or be subjugated”
mathematical truisms (obvious mathematical truths)
logical truisms (obvious logical truths)
identity perceptions (archetypes)
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