Nature's Underlying Organization

Hume outlines the idea that nature has created within human beings the innate ability to learn through “experience” making us capable of living and behaving without having previously learned how we do so, behaving simply upon our minds ability to connect past results with future likelihoods. He points out that a child is able, after touching a flame to understand that it is dangerous, and later react by avoiding that danger without understanding what it is that makes fire dangerous. Much like we are aware of the smell and sight of rotten food without having to consume it and experience stomach upset every time. Hume believes this fact implies that much of our knowledge comes from the instinctual ability to learn from experience. This ability says Hume has been granted us by nature and is therefore ultimately unfathomable. Just as we are amazed by the ability of ancient Japanese blacksmiths to fathom out the necessary technique in creating a beautiful and perfect Samurai sword.