Alex Bennett
1 min readFeb 18, 2024

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Virtually all of them. For instance, you pretty much had to learn from experience that milk (mother's or formula) took away your hunger. (BEFORE the first time you were nursed, did you KNOW being nursed would take away your hunger?)

Similarly, with other things as a baby, you EXPERIENCED different pains, and after a number of experiences, you CONCLUDED what caused them and what CURED them. Like putting your hand on the stove and learning what extreme heat was, and that the solution was to take your hand off it. After that, you figured out what things might be hot and were careful approaching them.

In Manifesto Part 1 (link below) it mentions there are SOME things we learn without experience, like babies KNOW to cry when they are in pain. Human biology "pre-wires" that knowledge, it doesn't have to be LEARNED from experience., it's "automatic."

What makes this basic point difficult to imagine is we can't REMEMBER all the experiences and all the conclusions that led to our thinking the world and our minds are the way there are. You probably remember how you learned to read, but when you read, it's automatic for you now -- you don't have to remember everything you learned about letters, words, spelling, grammar, etc, etc, in order to read -- you just READ. It's an unconscious process, but you wouldn't have learned how to do it without your EXPERIENCES in the classroom, etc.

https://medium.com/original-philosophy/a-truth-units-manifesto-part-1-a4e8c746b306

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Alex Bennett
Alex Bennett

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My goal on Medium has been to publish “Truth Units.” It took 1.5 years. I hope you read it. New articles will respond in-depth to your questions and critiques.

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