As for biological drives, I’ll concede that the word “all” is probably untrue and I wil retract it, though I do mean “the overwhelming majority as soon as the cultural learning machine kicks in”. This may be overcorrection in response to sociobiology (which itself was overcorrection in response to blank slate cultural relativism), but I want to try to commit to this and see how far it goes!
As far as my own view on this is concerned, I do think the blank slate view of human nature is mostly correct, and that ev psych/sociobiology is drastically wrong here due to harsh limits on how much information can be encoded in a genetic prior.
As far as my own view on this is concerned, I do think the blank slate view of human nature is mostly correct, and that ev psych/sociobiology is drastically wrong here due to harsh limits on how much information can be encoded in a genetic prior.