How could they have learned how to tell what to be scared for from what wasn't ?...they must have known it from someone .
or from genes
How could they have learned how to tell what to be scared for from what wasn't ?...they must have known it from someone .
Massimo Trentin wrote:Mmm,,,so you're saying that moms of our ancestors used to leave their > 3 years or so babies to their destiny even if in
sort of "Kindergarden" only because they would have other new sons to care for in meantime? (correct me if I'm wrong)
Many other lower mammals just don't do it, ...
How could they have learned how to tell what to be scared for from what wasn't ?...they must have known it from
someone. This was true maybe also for snakes, as it was for food and/or many other things (i.e fire)
Ruggero Morimando wrote:Thanks to all, but I'm still of the idea that the fear for snakes is an acquired one.
This is a subtle difference but at this point we must distinguish between genetic predisposition and genetic instruction.
Human beings are genetically predisposed to speak, but without someone who actually teaches young children a language, those children will remain enfant sauvage just like the one of Truffaut film.
We obviously have a genetic capacity to distinguish dangerous animals, neutral unuseful animals and useful maybe eatable creatures. But we need either personal experience or someone who teaches us those informations in order to activate genes in a direction or another one.
Snakes are very strange and unusual animals: I think our genes are rather neutral towards them, but we instictly perceive snakes as something "strange". Education then will transform this particular perceiving in hate, love, disgust, curiosity or whatever else. But normally in hate and disgust. This is my opinion...
P.s. The Pleistocene "Kindergarten" theory is not against my point of view: young children will simply learn snake fear from older children, cousins, granpas... and not from their mums!
Ruggero Morimando wrote:I think it's all in our culture...
Ruggero Morimando wrote:If culture does not play a role, how can you explain something like this: https://youtu.be/xMH5QuSUCcY
Ruggero Morimando wrote:Ok Michal, if we say that snake hate/fear is 99% an acquired one, we could begin to reason together...
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