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Most of our spatial intelligence is innate, developed through evolution. We're born with a basic sense of gravity and the ability to track objects. When we lear

Most of our spatial intelligence is innate, developed through evolution. We're born with a basic sense of gravity and the ability to track objects. When we learn to drive a car, we simply reassign these built-in skills to a new context

pzo 1y ago
Is there any research about it ? This would mean we massing some knowledge in genes and when offspring born have some knowledge of our ancestors. This would mean the weights are stored in DNA?
- cma 1y ago
  Horses can be blindfolded at birth and when removed do basic navigation with no time for any training. Other non-visually precocious animals like cats, if they miss a critical development period without getting natural vision data, will never develop a functioning visual system. Baby chicks can do bipedal balance pretty much as soon as they dry off. Wood ducks can visually imprint very soon after hatching and drying off, a couple hours after birth with very limited visual data up until then and no interspersed sleep cycles. We as humans have natural reactions to snake like shapes etc. even before encountering the danger of them or learning about it from social cues. Babies
  - magicalhippo 1y ago
    I've pondered this often, especially kangaroos where the half-developed fetus can climb up into the pouch. Clearly we're just hardwired for certain tasks, in such a way that the function is primarily dictated by topology. This weight agnostic neural network page[1] explores this, but obviously isn't the true answer. [1]: https://weightagnostic.github.io/ https://weightagnostic.github.io/
  - jampekka 1y ago
    It's not clear whether humans have natural reactions to snakes. https://link.springer.com/article/10.11133/j.tpr.2013.63.4.012 https://link.springer.com/article/10.11133/j.tpr.2013.63.4.0...
    - cma 1y ago
      If not, another visual system one in newborns is preference for faces with open eyes and direct gaze: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17030037/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17030037/

pzo 1y ago

Is there any research about it ? This would mean we massing some knowledge in genes and when offspring born have some knowledge of our ancestors. This would mean the weights are stored in DNA?

cma 1y ago
Horses can be blindfolded at birth and when removed do basic navigation with no time for any training. Other non-visually precocious animals like cats, if they miss a critical development period without getting natural vision data, will never develop a functioning visual system. Baby chicks can do bipedal balance pretty much as soon as they dry off. Wood ducks can visually imprint very soon after hatching and drying off, a couple hours after birth with very limited visual data up until then and no interspersed sleep cycles. We as humans have natural reactions to snake like shapes etc. even before encountering the danger of them or learning about it from social cues. Babies
- magicalhippo 1y ago
  I've pondered this often, especially kangaroos where the half-developed fetus can climb up into the pouch. Clearly we're just hardwired for certain tasks, in such a way that the function is primarily dictated by topology. This weight agnostic neural network page[1] explores this, but obviously isn't the true answer. [1]: https://weightagnostic.github.io/ https://weightagnostic.github.io/
- jampekka 1y ago
  It's not clear whether humans have natural reactions to snakes. https://link.springer.com/article/10.11133/j.tpr.2013.63.4.012 https://link.springer.com/article/10.11133/j.tpr.2013.63.4.0...
  - cma 1y ago
    If not, another visual system one in newborns is preference for faces with open eyes and direct gaze: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17030037/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17030037/