The human brain is not a blank slate because it’s not a slate. A slate is passive, something you write on, but the brain actively processes the information it receives. Memory is the slate it writes on, and it does start out blank. On the other hand, a computer is a blank slate until you program it; the active process itself has to be written into memory before anything can happen. Our goal is to figure out the simplest program we can write such that it will continue to write itself by reading data, without limit, until it knows everything there is to know.
