How do babies not sense danger? Shouldn’t death be something hardwired into your brain from birth?

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How do they even learn the concept of danger? At what point does the brain go “hey If i do this we die” How does it learn that?

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Science likes to use our fear of natural preditors as an example of hereditary knowledge but you make a good counter point. Guess it’s like the hot stove case , we tend not to be 100% sure until we can feel the warmth.