Steven Pinker and his pursuit of reverse engineering remain humble in his book entitled "How the Mind Works" (1997).
Steven writes: "...it omits a third alternative: that some categories are products of a complex mind designed to mesh with what is in nature." on page 57 in the last sentence of the first paragraph. We know the brain responds according to stimuli, but does the brain form according to stimuli too? If that were the case, then we would have to change the stimuli that cause crime instead of the people who respond to that stimuli with a crime. This line of reasoning also suggests that behavior change is the result of (and not the cause of) stimulus change. This line of reasoning also correctly suggests that the Earth formed before humans. This would support the idea that the human mind formed according to the external environment. Thus the itinery goes: stimulus-brain-response. Deaf kids devolop the same language patterns of hearing kids. The Chinese say that a baby is already one years (plural) young upon birth. Similar human language patterns that tend to emerge in different cultures and people could be explained if the brain were to form already knowing about the external characteristics of language.
I am looking forwards toward the next chapters in Steven's book to see how he characterizes the line of fit for the equation: stimuli-hardware-interpretation.
