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Not true.

You used evolution, too. The structure of your brain growth is the result of complex DNA instructions that have been mutated and those mutations filtered over billions of iterations of competition.

There are some patterns of thought that are inherent to that structure, and not the result of your own lived experience.

For example, you would probably dislike pain with similar responses to your original pain experience; and also similar to my lived pain experiences. Surely, there are some foundational patterns that define our interactions with language.




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