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Question: Philosophy: Are we born with any knowledge or do we learn everything from experience!?
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Psychologists and scientists which are material in nature!.!. will tell you that we learn everything and also that we have some genetic "knowledge" in our bodies!.!. but I think it's stupidity and ignorance to think that only what we can see and prove is right!.!.

In my opinion, we are Souls!.!. and many of us already been here in many other life times, again and again!.!. to in time there are some lessons we already mastered or don't even need to repeat while other people seem to struggle and get stuck in them!.!. I believe we Do remember subconsciously and there's also another thing!.!. many things we learn while in the Afterlife before being born!.!. so actually we souls know really a Lot more than we seem to remember when we are born!.!. I don't think that geniuses are just born- but might be more advance souls, exactly like spiritual teachers such as Jesus etc!.!.

Things are not always what they seem!.!. we don't only owe to genetics and learning abilities our traits and wisdom- but also our rich past!.!. So in conclusion- I believe also in what those scientists say but also add another source of wisdom!.!. which to me is More important and valuable!.!.

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Clearly when we are born, we are new to our surroundings, therefore unable to pick up on much!. But as small children, our brains have been described as "sponges", because they take in so much of their environment!. Using that knowledge, it can be assumed that aside from our instincts, we do learn everything by experience!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

If my memory serves me well, there was a philosopher call John Lock or something like that!. He thought, that a child is born like a blank sheet (so-called "tabula rasa" in Latin) and the society writes everything on this sheet, that's how the child gets his experience!. I partially agree with this with one addition: some things are just included with genes!. Not everything depends on the surrounding!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I believe that at Birth we already have some knowledge stored in our brains - we know how to breath and feed and have reflexes to help us with life, so why not have memories passed on from parents and grandparents of even from past lives!?
We then go into a very fast growth spurt and we have to learn to communicate within this world and behave within its restraints - all these memories then seem to fade from our consciousness but are still there in the subconscious - these can come to the fore in times of deep stress!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think we're born with INSTINCTS, not knowledge!. I think we get our knowledge from our experiences!. As what the old saying goes, "Experience is the best teacher"!. Knowledge is something that we should work hard for because it's one of the best things life can offer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think everything we learn happens by spontaneous experience by time because what we learn is only how to cry when we born but then learning smiling and thinking about things with education we take from our parents first then you see!.!.!. I think lots of things related by our parents!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thanks for the question!.Here are my thoughts:

We learn everything from our surroundings, observations and experiences!. By birth i feel we will have a tendency to observe things that are surrounded!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

We carry into this life the lessons of our past experiences; the experiences which produced these lessons, however, are missing since, unlike animals, we are born without the memory of past lives!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

well, when we are born we know how to breath! lol


honestly i believe we are, well Our Soul has knowledge!. our break cant access it though, Sometimes we find away to access past memories lock with in the soul = dreams and de ja vu!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

we are born with ability to learn something (whether with experience or not)Www@QuestionHome@Com