ORIGINAL: meef rustler
AP biology and AP psychology. I've actually done a project on where fear comes from. We get fear from observing. When that spider bites you or someone else you may develop a fear of it. Many fears come from tv and movies. Why do you think people fear ''ghosts''? Amphibians do not fear ghosts. Explain how you pass a concept through genetics. Learning fear is a trait for survival, because having fears keeps us safe. But you are not born fearing things. Someone locked in a box from birth to death would fear nothing, because they have not been exposed. Therefore, they have not learned to fear anything.
What you refer to here has more about human sentience. I think therefore I am. The reason an amphibian has no fear of ghosts is because it has no concept of death. Humans are the only animal on the planet with the ability to knowingly commit suicide. Your example of someone locked in a box is irrelevant. Babies don't survive locked in a box anyway. A perfectly healthy baby separated from its mother, yet given sufficient nutrients will very quickly die without human contact. I propose that if it lived long enough to become conscious of its own existence, when released into the world, it would fear everything. You are very young to have such strong opinions, with few years to consider the evidence. Don't believe everything you are told/read.