After you are done laughing, answer this. How much consciousness, emotion, artistic expression, ideas, or intellect would you possess if, from the moment of your birth, you were never taught anything. You would have no exposure to books, art, ideas, emotion, etc., only fed so that you wouldn't die. All of these things are the result of absorbing the collective wisdom passed on to us by all of our ancestors, just as it was passed to them.
It happens much the same way that physical evolution does, with bad ideas falling by the wayside, and the good ones prevailing. Many of the "new" ideas come to us by observing nature, and trial and error.
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