Imagine a child who grows up without exposure to any culture at all. No language, no stories, no shared rituals, no norms, and no symbolic systems passed down from other minds. The question is not simply what this child would know, but what kind of mind would actually take shape in the absence of the scaffolding that every known human society provides. At first glance, it is tempting to assume that what remains would be a kind of “pure” human being; an untouched consciousness