Our mind has all the knowledge innate
There are two ways in which animals can gain knowledge. The
first is learning. This is when an animal gathers information, proceeds to use
this information. For example, if an animal eats something that hurts its
stomach, it has learned not to eat this again. The second way that an animal
acquires knowledge is through innate knowledge. This knowledge is genetically
inherited. The animal automatically knows it without any prior experience. An
example of this is when a horse is born and can immediately walk. The horse has
not learned this behaviour, it simply knows how to do it. In a changing
scenario or environment, an animal must constantly be gaining new information
in order to survive. However, in a stable environment this same animal needs
only to gather the information it needs once and rely on it for the duration of
its life.
Our mind has all the knowledge innate that means our mind is
born with ideas and knowledge. This belief put forth most notably by Plato, as
his theory of Forms and later by Descartes in his meditations, is currently
gaining neuro-scientific evidence that could validate the belief that we are
born with innate knowledge of our world. Plato and Descartes used general
theory to explain human reasoning. Plato believed that the human soul exists
eternally, and exists in a “world of forms or ideas” before life; all learning
is the process of remembering. Descartes proposed that the inborn ideas that we
possess are those of geometric truths and we come to know them by the power of
our own native intelligence, without any sensory experience.
The predominant belief and assumption about human learning
and memory is that we are born as a “blank slate”, and we gain our knowledge
and ideas through new experiences and our memory of them. This belief is known
as Empiricism. Empiricists, such as John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume,
argued that human knowledge originates in our sensations. They were like
representative realists about the external world and placed great confidence in
the ability of the senses to inform us of the properties that empirical objects
really have in themselves.
According to our discussions or ideas we would be more
supportive towards empiricism because we think that we learn most of the things
by experience. Our life experiences teach us a lot and through it we come to
know anything from the beginning we need to perceive things by our experience.
Therefore we conclude saying that “our mind can not have all knowledge innate”.
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