The sort of mind that might emerge from Pocketknife Brain

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A note for Lesson no. 6, "Brains Make More Than One Kind of Mind," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 101 is:

[I'm] not saying people come into the world with their brains fully realized so that there’s a single, universal human nature. That’s the sort of mind that might emerge from Pocketknife Brain...

The appendix adds:

...the clash of Pocketknife versus Meatloaf is perhaps best known as nativism versus empiricism.

For more on Meatloaf Brain vs. Pocketknife Brain, see nativism/empiricism debate (from the webnotes for How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain).

For more details on why a "modular mind," composed of separate mental organs, is unlikely to have evolved, see evolution favors non-modular solutions (from the webnotes for How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain).