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Comment by ACCount37

A lot of animals are born "hardcoded" with most of the instincts they need to survive, so some behaviors are clearly innate.

And "how the brain learns from the incoming data streams" is, in part, driven a set of behaviors too.

A baby's eyes are trying to detect and track certain preset features long before the primary visual cortex learns to make sense of them. That's a behavior, and it exists for a reason. As the baby develops, the baby would try to seek out certain experiences to learn from them, which is a behavior that exists for a reason too.

There's a hypothesis that certain mental disorders are caused by this innate learning process going off course, but it's just a hypothesis, of the kind that's hard to prove conclusively.

parent ACCount37 11 months ago

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