So basically the brain has "firmware" we're born with, as well as the "software" we install as we grow.

Sounds a bit like Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

> Sounds a bit like Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

Yes, except with things in it instead of words.

	▲	why-el 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Chomsky never argued it was words (and how couldn't it be words, for there are millions of words from 100s of 1000s of languages), just a configuration to eventually learn those words.