in Edelman's view, very little else is programmed or built in. A baby turtle, on hatching, is ready to go. A human baby is not ready to go; it must create all sorts of perceptual and other categorizations and use them to make sense of the world-to make an individual, personal world of its own, and to find out how to make its way in that world. Experience and experiment are crucially important here-neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection.
( Oliver Sacks )
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