Children are born with a understanding of the world hardwired into their brains. Newborns genetically anticipate the basics of communication codes; have emotions, and are aware of their biological functions; and newborns hold an intuitive knowledge of the physical universe’s properties of solidity, inertia, and gravity. At birth there is just one world, the environment, permeated with power and assimilating humans, animals, plants, objects into a whole landscape. At birth we sense a unity to reality, a connection between all things. Individual objects are indistinguishable from the whole. Infants have innate knowledge of quantum virtues. Babies have genes for learning patterns like the codes of grammar. They understand the abstract (symbols and variables) of language, for instance, before they learn the meaning of words. Sensitivity to abstract patterns is a universal property of the human mind.
Jeffrey Mishlove, "The Roots of Consciousness"