> I believe that we must already have the built-in cognitive > systems to do or > recognize anything that we now or in the future may do or > recognize. Innate > abilities/traits exist cognitively (hardwired potencies) > long before we may > become conscious, as a culture, of them. > > > Luis Fontanills > Architect
I don't think that says anything except that we can only do what we are capable of doing. Trouble is, we don't know what our capacities are until we achieve them. Thus, to say we were innately capable is only possible after the capability is attained. A truism. "Hardwired potencies"? Are we really harwired? That's a term that had no currency before the computer terminology saturated the everyday language. Brains are not hardwired in the way suggested by the lingo. Our brains can and do adjust and reorganize neuronal activity as has been demonstrated by cases where people who have suffered trauma to one part of their brains can eventually recover abilities through another part of the brain. (Our brains have areas specifically employed for certain functions but sometimes when one area is disabled, an adjacent area can, in time, "adopt" its function.) That's different from hard wiring.
