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So basically the brain has "firmware" we're born with, as well as the "software" we install as we grow.

Sounds a bit like Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

> Sounds a bit like Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

Yes, except with things in it instead of words.

Chomsky never argued it was words (and how couldn't it be words, for there are millions of words from 100s of 1000s of languages), just a configuration to eventually learn those words.

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