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Originally Posted by Kiddo
What ideas do you believe are innate?
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Answering in universally understood symbolic ideas...
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)
The only thing that can possibly be innate would be those consistently demonstrated by infants and ideas universally believed and understood by all regardless of culture.