I find this schism particularly fascinating in its ability to compartmentalize accepted evolutionary science. However in my mind, a truly blank slate would become an exhaustive pile of goo, near impossible to train regarding everything the brain must know or be exposed to in order to survive, much less become a conscious being.įor now, I will move on to the next word that entered my mind automatically when presented with this material and that is of course, “instinct.” Instinct is a term now taken for granted within the natural sciences but is somehow a topic of debate for the study of the human mind regarding this theory in particular. Are we to suppose that these are just automatic functions gifted by nature that separates us from inanimate, non-thinking objects? Or if we were to take it a step further, if we are all made of the same cosmic material as we are taught in physics and the natural sciences, what is it about our material that would gift our minds with the natural ability to make decisions for itself? Perhaps this is a bit too philosophical of an approach, even for Locke (no irony intended). Thinking is something that is present and when externalized is an observable function of the mind and has to come from somewhere. If it were, how could thinking itself be excluded? After all, a blank slate is a blank slate. What I find most interesting about this interpretation is that it does not fully represent the literal translation of what the phrase should imply.

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Human nature and the blank slate