TED Talk: Human Nature and the Blank Slate Pinker
Words: 702 Pages: 2 5994What is a true blank slate? The phrase seems to be commonly interpreted by the speaker as a mind that learns from the environment and other forms of external conditioning only. According to Locke himself who supposedly coined the idea that later thinkers built on: “Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas; How comes it to be furnished?... To this I answer, in one word, from Experience: […]