Maybe "blindly" is too strong a word, but I do think that our genes code for cognitive structures that in turn produce regular patterns of thought, what some have called an "intuitive ontology."

I think one of the key differences between humans and other animals is the way that language gives us the power to construct new ontological categories that have not been prepared by our genes, but which can be formed by recombining or expanding the ones that have.

This allows us to not only see the world as our evolutionary history has prepared us to see it, but to imagine how it might be different.

Of course, any species with language could perform something similar, but no other species on Earth has that capability yet. Even chimpanzees, who have shown creativity with symbols, first have to be taught how to recognize and use symbols by human caretakers. The don't develop them in the wild.