Humans Are Born With an Innate World Model Shaped by Evolutionary Priors
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-10-22
The author argues humans are born with an innate world model—an evolutionary prior shaped by genetics and biology that scaffolds perception, prediction, and action, and updates continuously through experience, especially rewards that reinforce or extinguish beliefs and behaviors.
Though all beings share the same physical universe, each has a distinct world model: differences in genetics, development, culture, and personal rewards create divergent ways of seeing, predicting, and acting. What one person treats as obvious, another may find invisible or false—not because the world differs, but because their models do.
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