> The brain is predisposed to learn those skills.
Learning to walk doesn't seem to be particularly easy, having observed the process with my own children. No easier than riding a bike or skating, for which our brains are probably not 'predisposed'.
Learning to walk doesn't seem to be particularly easy, having observed the process with my own children. No easier than riding a bike or skating, for which our brains are probably not 'predisposed'.
Young children learn to bike or skate at an older age after they have acquired basic physical skills.
Check out the reference to Core Knowledge above. There are things young infants know or are predisposed to know from birth.
That seems like a decent example of pretraining through evolution.
And reading and music co-evolved to be relatively easy for humans to do.
(See how computers have a much easier time reading barcodes and QR codes, with much less general processing power than it takes them to decipher human hand-writing. But good luck trying to teach humans to read QR codes fluently.)
What makes you think so? Humans came up with biking and skating, because they were easy enough for us to master with the hardware we had.