David Papineau - Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn tha

Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.

- David Papineau

source: "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.