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Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world (news.ucsc.edu)
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[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Interesting read, but I think the conclusion is a bit of a stretch. That's like saying "A car is pre-configured to roll down a hill, even before you put gas in it."

More fitting would be to say that the absolute baseline of reactive brain activity is much more primitive than we thought.