Humans are designed to be continuous learning machines. If you aren"t a learning machine, you have stopped being a human.

Humans are designed to be continuous learning machines.

If you aren"t a learning machine, you have stopped being a human.

New people to interact with, new ways to do things, new way to accomplish, new things to experience and interpret rightly.

The biggest issue I see is that most people wanted certainty, wanted to know, and once they thought they did, they settled and said: I am done learning, I know everything. ((‘Human beings are learning machines,’ says philosopher

Prevailing wisdom holds that we are born with an innate understanding of the world. Wrong, says philosopher Jesse Prinz, who tells Michael Bond why he thinks many of our “innate” abilities are actually a result of the culture we live in

In your new book you claim that culture rather than biology determines our lives. Hasn’t science moved on from this “nature versus nurture” debate?

I"m not trying to deny the biological contribution to human nature or to overly dichotomise the nature/nurture distinction – everyone recognises that the truth is somewhere in the middle. The point is that in scientific writing on this topic, the nurture side has been inadequately expressed, especially in books directed towards a more general audience. They suggest a very inflexible view of human nature, that we are determined by our biology. From my perspective the most interesting thing about the human species is our plasticity, our flexibility.

One of the ideas you take issue with is that we are all born with innate knowledge about the world. Why do you reject that?

If you look at the dozens of journal articles published each month supporting the view that babies already know a lot about how the world is organised, they rarely show these capacities in the earliest days of life. They show them emerging at 3 months, 6 months or 12 months. When they test newborn infants, these capacities are often absent. This already suggests that learning might be taking place. Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328480-400-human-beings-are-learning-machines-says-philosopher/))

But when you look, honestly, the reason you are reading this is because you don"t know how to the best you, and how to be happy and fulfilled.

Now, it sounds like you could build on what you already know, but there is not one single human who can do that.
Why? because what you know just isn"t so.
Your vibration, your accurate vocabulary, your overall intelligence number combined tell the picture: your knowledge by which you live is inaccurate.
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