1 min readFeb 3, 2020
No.
Our brains are “organized prior to experience” (Jonathan Haidt).
Your description of “hardwired" suffers from Pinker’s blank slate idealism, and it is very dangerous.
“Hardwired" is a metaphor for a computing circuit that embeds logic that cannot be changed by reprogramming software. The real meaning of the term is the opposite of what you claim it to mean.