1-1a2e3 Cultures are evolution’s ultimate solution to the problem of providing adaptive flexibility

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• 1-1a2e4 Cultures precede languages
  • 3-1b1b1 No learning without doing; specifically, no learning without cultural doing
  • 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society
  • 10-1b5 We enter the world of language-based learning once we have mastered a language
• 1-1a2e5 Cultures nurture minds
  • 2-1a4 ‘Language instinct’ - Language can’t exhaust mind
  • 1-1a2c Everett on Aristotle - He is responsible for the characterization of the mind as a blank slate (‘Mind is in a sense potentially whatever is thinkable, though actually it is nothing until it has thought’)
    • 1-1a2 Our mind is flexible