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Week 1 Update - Blank Slate or more . . .
Blank Slate or more . . .
Leaning is the process of getting to know new things. Learning is usually split into two forums: its leaning about new factors, experiences, or perspective. Or Learning how to do, build, or behave in certain situations. It’s an ongoing process that happens from the moment we are born. Leaning often happens naturally because we are programmed to with an innate inclination to learn from our rich surroundings. In addition, the fact that we are surrounded by people and stimuli that have a natural aptitude to teach us. All these factors contribute to our ever growing knowledge and need to discover more. For years now it is has been an ongoing debate if humans are born as blank slates or as being with natural instincts and intuitive physics. While looking at the world and the various species that populate it, human babies are born with the least amount of natural instinct. We must adapt and learn very quickly to become a fully functioning, until like many animal species. Although our species are brought into the world as helpless beings, we have the ability to adapt and learn very quickly. Humans absorb so much from their encounters, environment, and stimuli; it’s really a remarkable process. John Lock is one of the early empiricists who supported the theory of human beings entering this world as a “blank state”. He stated humans are born without innate ideas, and knowledge is only gained through experiences and exploration of the world around us. Many theorist dispute Locke’s claim for babies entering this world as blank slates! These theorists believe humans are created as beings with Innatism. That not all knowledge is gained from experiences of our senses but is also created from something within ourselves.
http://sites.bu.edu/ombs/2012/02/22/are-we-born-with-knowledge/
