Core Knowledge Hypothesis

Core Knowledge Hypothesis proposes that humans, including infants, possess innate, domain-specific cognitive systems that provide a foundation for understanding and interacting with the world.

• Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus has a set of priors that it assumes as core knowledge priors

• In Intuitive Physics understanding from Videos, authors say:

  We expect objects to behave predictably. This grasp of physics is in many animals. Which hints towards Core Knowledge Hypothesis.

  But, they discredit it because their system learns physics intuition without having such core knowledge priors embedded in it.